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The Vaccinator: Binary 2: "The Vaccinator", "Andy Warhol's Dracula" Bk.2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (28 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857987608
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857987607
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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THE VACCINATOR by the Award-winning author of SPARES. A hilarious SF/noir satire. A hitman, a scam and a group of aliens on the make in Florida. ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA by the award winning author of ANNO DRACULA. Part of Newman's stunning alternate history Vampire epic this takes a vampire out of the shadows and into the self-regarding glare of a 1970's New York peopled by characters from films and real life.

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ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA by Kim Newman

'Moving like a wraith in an ever narrowing gyre around the very solid Andy Warhol is Ion Popescu, a vampire transplant from Romania, reborn here as Johnny Pop. Revelations leap at you from every page. You nod in recognition, you smile in wonder (in envy if you're a writer) at the marvels of interconnectedness and correspondence between Johnny Pop's '70s and the decade the rest of us survived.' F. PAUL WILSON

THE VACCINATOR by Michael Marshall Smith

'The crucial thing about Michael Marshall Smith is that he is enormously readable. Once you have started one of his books, you won't want to stop. He has the talent to become an inspiration to a generation of writers' The Independent

Not quite a parody of Men in Black, but a gently sarcastic reminder of how thta film could have been if it hadn't gone for the blurry option. By the end of the story, otherness both disguises and signalises identity. As usual, we're the aliens. As usual in Michael Marshall Smith's fiction, it's just not convenient for us to acknowledge that. At the present time.' M. JOHN HARRISON

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Double vision works for me, 2 Jan 2001
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You see, reading 'Binary 2' is like making love to a beautiful woman. You've got to take your time, savour the atmosphere, go with the flow - and when you're finished, you can turn it over and start again...

But enough of the Swiss Tony impression. Being far more familiar with Michael Marshall Smith's work than with Kim Newman's, I picked up 'Binary 2' on the basis that it offered me a fresh fix of MMS while I'm waiting for 'Straw Men' to be published. 'The Vaccinator' reads like a cross between 'Men in Black' and 'Hawaii 5-0', and as one might expect from an MMS story, it's eventful, eminently readable and cooler than Frosty the Snowman in dark glasses.

'Andy Warhol's Dracula' is a slightly different kettle of fish, being darker in tone but matching the knowing humour of 'Vaccinator'. I've only read a few of Newman's short stories, but it's clear that his favourite pastime is remodelling the twentieth century around a fictional conceit, then mixing in a variety of real and fictional characters to suit the situation. 'Warhol' presents a late twentieth century in which vampirism is not only genuine, but romanticised and even fetishised in Europe. It follows Dracula's hippest son on an odyssey to the New World and through Andy Warhol's pop art world, intercut with mock academic critique to add a depth of background flavour not often found in a novella. 'Warhol' demands more of its reader than 'Vaccinator', requiring at least a passing familiarity with the 1970s world on which Newman hangs his sleight-of-reality references, but is just as entertaining as Michael Marshall Smith's more easy-going piece.

All in all, good light reading. Not so much a literary snack as a midnight feast.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Smith does it again, 17 Aug 2003
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Get it for Michael Marshall Smith, because if you're in any way a fan you'll want to read all of his work, no matter how short. Don't bother flipping it over and readong the other story, which should never have been combined with MMS anyway ;-)

As always, Michael's work is cutting satire, mystery and plain weirdness. Love it, can't get enough.

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3.0 out of 5 stars 2 novellas - both intriguing but neither great, 15 Jan 2003
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A very quick read and quite entertaining, but I can't help feeling both could have been so much more if they've been novels rather than novellas. Worth a read, though - some great ideas in both stories.
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