Finished reading ‘Fairyland’ by Paul J. McAuley. It’s a very good novel dealing with the emergence of new genetic modification technology and the emergence of artificially created creatures called Dolls.
One of the things that impressed me about the novel, was that the future world felt believable through the technique of accumulated little details. We know we are in the future when the lead character remembers an event from his childhood dated to before the end of the twentieth century. It makes references to small things, rather then having long passages about how the world works.
These posts are getting less frequent at the moment, because my internet connection seems to fail, in windy weather. And now it appears to be on the verge of a massive fail.
Well actually it did. We had a man from the phone company around. Basically the problem was that a branch had poked its way through the phone line. This is probably symbolic of something, but I am not sure what.
I am still trying think of a new angle for a vampire story. Think that I might have got one, but still in the stages of making it work. Just having the idea is not good enough. Where I have stumbled before is having the idea, then that moment of err, and then what? I still don’t want it to be one which tries to find a scientific explanation for vampires. It’s not that, this notion is a good one; it’s just that it seems to have been by people before, who are more talented then me. So that’s out.
Also, really uneasy about the whole vulnerable to Christian symbols thing. That could end up asking for a scene where the vampire is confronted with a cross and then tries to hide behind the complete works of Richard Dawkins. (I’m sure somebody has done something like this.)
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