Dracula Unbound - Brian W. Aldiss

Dracula Unbound. ============ A Vampire story with a Sci-Fi twist. the reader is taken backwards and forwards through time and meet a few fictional characters along the way. Dracula, (forget the count title) has gotten hold of a 'time train' and has set himself up a huge castle type structure way way ahead in time almost at the end of the Earths life. From here he and his minions come back to gather victims, slaves and great minds to make life in the future easier. While all this is going on we are introduced to our hero of the novel, Joe Bodenland. Joe is generally regarded as a Scientist and one of the last adventurers. ...  Read the complete review

Dracula Unbound. Author Brian W Aldiss. The book is described as a 'Meta-Fiction' which is a fictional story about a fictional story, Got that? The story is based around Joe Bodenland and his adventures and battles through time. The story starts promisingly enough with a line of slave humans traipsing along, going back to their slave tower, or bastion, whilst flying overhead is a guardian or 'Fleet one'. The time is the end of time and Draculas minions are moving through time bringing people forward to help maintain his tower or as it is known 'The Mechanism'. It's an intriguing start which does hook you in to continue ...  Read the complete review