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    Dracula Unbound

    By Brian Aldiss

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    A dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can…
    Available for the first time in eBook.

    When Bram Stoker was writing his famous novel, Dracula, at the end of the 19th century he received a visitor named Joe Bodenland. While the real Count Dracula came from the distant past, Joe arrived from Stoker’s future – on a desperate mission to save humanity from the undead.

    Following on from Frankenstein Unbound, this is a dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9780007482177
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    Brian Aldiss

    Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

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    • 4/5
      The author Brian Aldiss was a distinguished British SF writer who died last week at the age of 92. I had never read anything by him and this was on my Kindle already, so it seemed the right time to read it. As its title suggests it's a spin off the classic horror novel, set partly in the modern day, partly in late Victorian London around the time of the novel's original publication, and featuring Bram Stoker as a character, and partly 65 million years ago. Aldiss's story opens in modern day Utah, where two coffins are found containing human remains, but buried at a stratum dating from the era of the end of the dinosaurs, and one of whom has a stake through its heart. Despite this promising beginning, and the intriguing combination of vampires and time travel, I found the novel a bit disappointing in practice. I found most of the modern day characters rather annoying for various reasons and the late 19th and late 20th century characters accepted each other rather implausibly quickly given their completely different assumptions. Some of the dialogue jarred as well. The plot jolted along well enough to keep me reading and I'm sure I'll read the others in the trilogy (indeed I've already downloaded them), but this is not representative of Aldiss's work (I must retry his famous Helliconia trilogy).
    • 1/5
      What a disappointment! I was really looking forward to reading my first Brian Aldiss - one of the 'masters' of science fiction - book. It sucked!The characters and dialogue was flat and annoying. The imagery, with possibly the exception of the first description of the time train and the torture of Alwyn, below par for a school essay by a twelve year old. The science highly contrived. The time travel paradoxes were what you might expect from a 1950's pulp SF novel.I doubt that I would ever read another Brian Aldiss novel, and am flabbergasted that my favourite author, Gene Wolfe lists him as a favourite,
    • 5/5
      When two coffins are found below the K/T line aging them to 65 million years in the past Joe Bodenland gets involved. Add in a time machine, vampires, Count Dracula, and Bram Stoker as a character and you have got the workings over a clever and exciting novel.I really enjoyed this story. Brian Aldiss is a master at blending science and fantasy into an epic tale through 65 million years of history. First book of his I have read but will definetely be looking for more. Perhaps the previous Frankenstein Unbound.
    • 3/5
      Normally I enjoy books about a) vampires, b) time travel and c)time travel paradox. But I have to say that I did not enjoy this one very much until a few pages just before the end when it seemed like the author got his act back together and got on track. I said to my husband that this is probably one of the worst books I've ever read, and yet I felt compelled to finish it. Why? No clue. here's a brief look, no spoilers:According to this book, vampires (which are definitely real here) are the evolutionary descendants of very simplistic carrion-eater life forms. Events (which I won't go into here, it would spoil the story for anyone who wants to read it), help further the evolution of the vampires along through millenia. I could actually totally have lived with that notion (fresh premise, actually; always looking for that) except that it took FOREVER through all of the winding around plot wise for us to get there. Aldiss sets his story first in the desert of Texas, where an archaeological dig reveals 2 rather human skeletons which are found below the K-T boundary, meaning that they seemingly co-existed with the dinosaurs. That was a rocking discovery indeed. As the group of main characters are pondering this, they witness a mysterious phenomenon of light in the desert sky, and attempt to capture it. This is when all of the "fun" begins.I will say that this novel involves time travel, and one of the joys of reading this (perhaps the only one) was that the author placed Bram Stoker in the novel -- those parts were really good and made the book much more palatable.My advice: unless you're a true, die-hard fan of stories about vampires flying through space and time on ghost trains, skip it.
    • 4/5
      When I picked this I had no idea that it was a gothic Sci Fi book....Dracula has a time machine and knows how to use it. Some of the tale seems a stretch even for Sci Fi. But I enjoyed that Bram Stoker is in this book, a nice tribute. Good thing about the book, once you get pass the begining, the book picks up and is a fun read.