The series is known for its carefully researched historical settings and the author's use as supporting characters of historical people and fictional characters of the appropriate period. While many of the characters from Newman's Diogenes Club stories appear in the Anno Dracula novels, they are not the same as the ones in those stories, nor is the Diogenes Club itself the same. While Dracula is a central figure in the events of the series, he is a minor character in the books and usually appears in only a few climactic pages of each book. The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman-named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel-is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.
Thrown out of the party, she must fight her way back up through a building that seems designed to destroy her in a thousand ways.Public domain depictions of some of the main characters used in Vampire schoolgirl Nezumi - sword-wielding agent of the Diogenes Club - finds herself alone, pitted against the world's deadliest creatures. The distinguished guests are held hostage by cyberpunk terrorists, yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries. The world is connected as never before by technology, and conquests have been made in cyberspace that mark out new nations of the living and the undead.īut the party is crashed by less enlightened souls, intent on ensuring that the brave new world dies before it can come to fruition. It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon - in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance, culture and innovation.Īfter a century overshadowed by the malign presence of Dracula, Christina decrees the inauguration of an Age of Light.
The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman.
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