Homo sapiens vampiris was a short-lived Human subspecies which diverged from the ancestral line between 800,000 and 500,000 year BP. The following (much briefer) synopsis restricts itself to a few biological characteristics of the ancestral organism: The company responsible for this discovery presented its findings after extensive follow-up studies on inmates of the Texas penal system a recording of that talk, complete with visual aids, is available online 1 curious readers with half an hour to kill are refered there for details not only on vampire biology, but on the research, funding, and “ethical and political concerns” regarding vampire domestication (not to mention the ill-fated “Taming Yesterday’s Nightmares For A Brighter Tomorrow” campaign). “Vampires were accidentally rediscovered when a form of experimental gene therapy went curiously awry, kick-starting long-dormant genes in an autistic child and provoking a series of (ultimately fatal) physical and neurological changes. Since he’s a biologist, he manages to sound way more convincing than most: Here’s Watts’ fictinoal rationalization of vampire biology.
It’s overflowing with spoilers, so if you hate spoilers you should stop reading now. The entire novel is available for free online: go have a look!īelow is a longform quote from the Notes and References section. Biologist and SF writer Peter Watts’ Blindsight is one of the most exhilarating mindbenders I’ve read in a long time.
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