But I guess Peter Watts was just like “hey, I thought of this hilarious vampire idea, I’m just gonna put it in there. If the entire vampiric element were removed, the main plot would barely have to change at all.

What I love about this is that the vampires really don’t have to be in the book at all. 'Vampires' - Blindsight by Peter Watts 498 views 3 Dislike Share Save Austin Jacobs 1 subscriber Show more 26:09 Mad Fabes World 3. (The vampires can take drugs or wear special glasses that make them more able to deal with right angles.) The humans don’t really like this but just have to put up with it. along with expedition leader Jukka Sarasti, a brooding, sociopathic and downright scary vampire Isaac Szpindel, a biologist so. In the future, humans have resurrected vampires using ancient DNA, and vampires are apparently way better at tactical thinking than humans, so they’ve ended up in a bunch of military command-type positions. Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film Danil Krivoruchko 1.47K subscribers 9. The right angle thing is called the “Crucifix Glitch” and it is, of course, why you can ward off a vampire using a crucifix. This wasn’t a problem in prehistory, when there weren’t many perfect right angles around, but once humans started making buildings and stuff, the vampires were wiped out (evolution couldn’t adapt them quickly enough). But their brains had a innate feature that made them totally freak out whenever they saw a perfect right angle. Specifically, in this universe vampires were a species that existed alongside humans in prehistoric times. One thing that is delightful about Blindsight by Peter Watts (I’m about 2/3 of the way through it, now) is that … well, it’s science fiction, but there are vampires.

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