Isn't Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.
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Dracula has the protomolecule, confirmed?
Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.
Lower decks holodeck episode in the style of the Moriarty episodes?
Yup, a direct reference to it.
Check out Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Fun fact, Blindsight is online free at the author's web site: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
The vampires appear in Chapter 1, after the Prologue.
Check out Vampire Hunter D, although I wouldn't call it an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting there's still spaceships and vampires.
Immortal unless he's killed, which he was.
Somehow, Dracula returned!
There's a Dracula "sci-fi western" in development now, and it wouldn't be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.
So it's been done, but I wouldn't say it's been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.
they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars
That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they're hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.
How do vampires handle high g forces, I don't believe it's ever been addressed. Presumably the ability to turn into a bat would lower his mass and help.
Hrm....is it only our sun that's a problem for him? Like how our sun powers superman but Krypton's didn't?
But it would be very strange for an old Eastern European noble to be playing a Japanese card game and drinking a recently invented American beverage
With a skeptical brow raised, the count begrudgingly sipped from a glass of Coca-Cola, a recently invented American beverage vastly different from the Romanian wines of his cellar. "Passable," he muttered under his breath, with a reluctant nod, betraying centuries of noble pride. Yet, as the night unfolded, a subtle smile crept over his pale face.
He looked over to his guest, sitting opposite him on an old wooden chair. A traveler from a far away land, lost in these dark forests in this dark and stormy night, glad to have been given shelter. The man - he could not be older than thirty - had bowed profusely after his rescue from the elements.
"I could never repay you completely for you help, but may I offer you a small token of thanks for your kindness? It's a game from my home, quite simple to play, it would be an honor to teach you. I have not seen its likeness in these lands, so it might offer you a sliver of fresh entertainment."
"Caffeine is terrible! I was up all night!"
I do sometimes wonder what drinking the Cokaine-Cola must have been like
If it's anything like just doing cocaine:
Drink like 3 monster energies. It feels like that, but faster starting
It is historically plausible for a samurai to have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
Any stranger than him being a vampire?
Of any "class/type" of person to be doing something like that a noble is the most likely. High standing and money gives you easier access to things.
Wasn’t another one that Samurai, the telegraph and Lincoln were all alive in the same time period so you could have a Samurai send an electronic message to Lincoln.
The fax machine, actually
Fax machines are an ancient and archaic magicks, we dare not meddle.
Yeah, meanwhile in reality Karl Marx sent a letter to Lincoln.
Well, yes, but I don't think there were lines connecting the two.
That said, Matthew Perry (not that one) had already reestablished relations with Japan during Lincoln's time
Damn coke used to be cool ? Now it is just average useless soda
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.[77] Since then (by 1929[78]), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.[79] Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[80]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_leaf
So it still has coca extract, just not the cocaine part.
C'mon Stepan Company, you could be a bro and "accidentally" let just a smidge through the final product.
That's why they named the company "coca" cola.
A lot of things used to be a lot cooler. My doctor has never prescribed me opium and laudanum for a cough.
Get a better doctor! Mine prescribes meth to make my brain work better.
It's called Castlevania.
Dracula can't drink Coca-Cola though...
Why?
Ingesting anything other than blood makes him ill.
the cocaine fixes that