And when Weyland, blood-lusting against his better judgment, makes a vampiric play for hearty Katya herself, she shoots him-and wounded Weyland jumps into his Mercedes Benz, driving off to Manhattan to recuperate. But, in the first of the novel's four tapestry-like mythic episodes, middle-aged Katya de Groot (a South African hunter) sees right through the vampire's facade: she knows he is feeding on his dream subjects. Edward Lewis Weyland, or at least that's the human persona the vampire (the only one in the world) has so studiously assembled: he's professor of anthropology at the Cayslin Center (with its famed dream-research lab), where he maintains a bland, remote exterior so he can ""feed"" without fuss. From the author of superior science fiction (Motherlines, 1978)-a superior, grandly detailed vampire story that takes the torment of its monstrous hero very seriously indeed.
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