re: #142 jonhendry

There’s a brand new Charlie Stross “Laundry Files” book that involves vampires. It’s called The Rhesus Chart.

(The Laundry: a super-secret British intelligence agency that deals with occult threats. In the Laundryverse, magic, mathematics, and computation are intimately connected, although most people don’t know that. So occasionally the Laundry has to deal with a problem that crops up when a Computer Science grad student accidentally opens a portal to another dimension and a brain-eating cosmic threat tries to come through.)

Ooooo! I have got to find those.

In my vampire stories background it’s taken as a given that humans cannot know vampires exist. That little thing with The Inquisition, and to most vampires The Holocaust and Trail of Tears are something they experienced. They know they’d receive far less mercy than that.

In my latest novel it turns out that some humans do know, but they agree with the vampires and other supernaturals (like werewolves and sorcerers) that humans should’t know and work to keep the secret.

They’re called Le Archives Speciale, because most people don’t go looking for archives. They used to be called Duxieme X but an American TV show that came out a couple of decades ago forced them to change their name. (There’s a geek’s in joke in there.)