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Dracula Unbound
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In a brilliant reimagining of Bram Stoker’s horror classic, an inventor travels back in time to save humankind from a nightmarish enslavement by vampires
Joe Bodenland has figured out how to manipulate time—a discovery that leads him to Utah and an impossible sixty-five-million-year-old human gravesite. It is here that he learns of the existence of a monstrous race of intelligent predators as old as the dinosaur, and of the remarkable “train” the undead creatures use to travel back and forth from a Paleolithic past to a monstrous far future in which Homo sapiens are enslaved cattle. With the fate of all humanity at stake, Joe commandeers the ghostly transportation and rides it back to Victorian England, where he enlists the aid of a powerful ally, the author Bram Stoker, in the battle to secure Earth. But to prevent the coming apocalyptic nightmare, they must first confront and destroy the most cunning and deadly being the world has ever known: Lord Dracula, the immortal vampire.
The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and the Prix Jules Verne, Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss puts a bold new science ficion spin on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampiric horror. An ingenious reinvention of the Nosferatu myth, Dracula Unbound is a breakneck thrill ride from one of the most revered names in science fiction and fantasy.
Joe Bodenland has figured out how to manipulate time—a discovery that leads him to Utah and an impossible sixty-five-million-year-old human gravesite. It is here that he learns of the existence of a monstrous race of intelligent predators as old as the dinosaur, and of the remarkable “train” the undead creatures use to travel back and forth from a Paleolithic past to a monstrous far future in which Homo sapiens are enslaved cattle. With the fate of all humanity at stake, Joe commandeers the ghostly transportation and rides it back to Victorian England, where he enlists the aid of a powerful ally, the author Bram Stoker, in the battle to secure Earth. But to prevent the coming apocalyptic nightmare, they must first confront and destroy the most cunning and deadly being the world has ever known: Lord Dracula, the immortal vampire.
The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and the Prix Jules Verne, Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss puts a bold new science ficion spin on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampiric horror. An ingenious reinvention of the Nosferatu myth, Dracula Unbound is a breakneck thrill ride from one of the most revered names in science fiction and fantasy.
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“A snippet of the review from The Guardian: "Whatever else Aldiss may be, predictable he is not."
Well, it's easy to be unpredictable when your characters don't act like people, when no one reacts the way a logical person reacts, when the characters do what they do because that's what the plot needs them to. A ghost train whisks by without any explanation: obviously the next course of action is to try to board it without any preliminary investigation. Let's bring the newlywed couple who are about to go on their honeymoon to this archaeological dig that they really don't have any interest in; seems reasonable. That newlywed couple will then spend the whole book fighting, but their fights are crazy inconsistent and they flip flop which side they're on each argument. Several horrific things happen, and the characters just brush it off; gotta move on to the next scene. Keep the plot moving guys.
The plot moves so quickly from scene to scene, there's no opportunity for anything that happens to really settle, to have any impact, and the progression makes absolutely no sense. And since the characters aren't feeling anything, the reader can't either. And for a story about time travel, not a lot of play is done with the time travel element. Time may be wibbly wobbly, but it's not in Aldiss's story. The plot goes from A to B to C, and so on, M to N...back to M, but not farther, to N to O to P to O...to P to Q, etc.
If I finish a book, I usually give at least 2 stars; 3 generally means, "this was a book that was fine." But I just can't give this more than 1 star. The story was drab, the characters were unbelievable even as cardboard cutouts, there was no play with time travel fun (which was the main reason I kept reading; what kind of time travel doesn't include some kind of twisty element??).
The one positive: I like this world's vampire lore/history...”
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About Brian W. Aldiss
Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award‑winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three‑volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four‑volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was “Super‑Toys Last All Summer Long,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick’s death by Steven Spielberg as A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.
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