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[–] 117 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Isn't Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Check out Blindsight by Peter Watts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Such a good book. The vampires seem out of place in the hard sci-fi setting at first, but I think it’s actually quite well done, and ends up being very thematically relevant in the story.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Dracula would have some real problems in outer space, where it's always daytime.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well at what point in space does the sun just become a star and a different star become a sun? Is there a magnitude when it becomes a problem for a vampire. Or is only our sun the problem? Like no matter how little sun light a vampire is exposed to a problem even if the vampire is many many light years away.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Moonlight is reflected sunlight, so they can handle a certain amount of sunlight.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Mmm interesting point. This means that either reflected sunlight is fine or that the loss of intensity makes it not not dangerous. I assume most people would agree that using mirrors to reflect sunlight on to a vampire is detrimental to their health and happiness. So it seems like a safe assumption that it is the intensity that matters.

    Now we just have to find out if this is a property unique to the sun or if all star light at a certain intensity is unhealthy for vampires.

    Time to build an interstellar space ship and fill it with vampires. Luckily they don't need much in the way of life support systems. So we can do this on the cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I volunteer to be one of the vampires.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's a Dracula "sci-fi western" in development now, and it wouldn't be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.

    So it's been done, but I wouldn't say it's been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars

    That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they're hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.

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