They do the “let’s have human blood for dinner and like it” thing. But my vampires don’t do the whole “oh we’re so tormented poor us we hate being vampires” thing. Now Long Before Dawn was of course infamously (around here, anyway) categorized as “ vampire-busters” in a rejection letter from an agent who thought it should be more like Interview with the Vampire. I won’t explain what it was, because, in my opinion, that would involve “A Secret.” Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away Worldīecause of the extended flashback, we don’t find out immediately what the Go-Away War entailed, but we do find out eventually. “No,” Master Wu says now, “there are no Secrets. The book starts out with the narrator and his group of let’s call them roughnecks being called to respond to a leak and subsequent fire along the pipeline, then immediately jumps into an extended flashback of How We Got Here wherein the main character is five years old, thereafter following him through his martial arts training, during which he learns Secrets (maybe): Now apparently The Gone-Away World takes place after some manner of apocalypse occurred, known as the Go-Away War, which seems to have involved corruptions to people and animals, and after which human civilization is confined to a narrow band of terrain surrounding a world-straddling pipeline that delivers and emits some sort of, uh, chemical, I guess, that keeps the corruption at bay. Not to be confused with the Offspring song
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