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Reminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

• deleted 7y ago
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• ablation 7y ago
  Thanks for posting this. I'd been trying to remember this short story's name for a while now, and seeing this image immediately put me in mind of the "basilisk"!
• gloflo 7y ago
  And Snow Crash!
• cpeterso 7y ago
  Peter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)
  • mgnn 7y ago
    His is an interesting take on vampire lore in sci-fi. I remember they also have drugs to mitigate this condition, and allow them to live in cities: the anti-euclidean, or auntie-e.
    • geoah 7y ago
      I still don't understand what vamps drew to crash humans.
  • gdrift 7y ago
    Homo sapiens whedonum https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
• azundo 7y ago
  Levar Burton Reads has an episode with another David Langford short story featuring BLITs: https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395-2325-4f0d-9404-4fe0e634e974 https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395...
• styts 7y ago
  I'm positive I've recognised some items from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky poem.