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Meet the eternal predator that humanity never ceases to find both fascinating and terrifying. Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead moves this creature beyond 2012, through this century and into the next. We humans will evolve, but so will they! Whatever apocalyptic events that lie ahead for our species, for the planet, vampires will be there too, helping or hindering, effecting or infecting us. Time is on their side, but it may not be on ours.
Featured authors include: Tanith Lee, Kelley Armstrong, John Shirley, Thomas Roche, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Heather Clitheroe, Erika Holt, Ivan Dorin, Michael Lorenson, Jason Ridler, David Beynon, Eileen Bell, Peter Sellers, Sandra Wickham, William Meikle, David Tocher, Leanne Tremblay, Ryan McFadden, Steve Vernon, Bev Vincent, Anne Mok, and Sandra Kasturi.
About the Author
Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick has published eighteen novels, over one hundred and ninety short stories, five collections of stories, and edited ten other anthologies. Much of her body of work involves vampires.
She also writes dark fantasy, horror, mysteries and erotic horror, under her name, her nom de plume Amarantha Knight, and her newest pen name Desirée Knight. Besides writing novels and short stories, and editing anthologies, she has scripted four issues of Vamp-Erotic comics. As well, she’s penned radio scripts, a stage-play, and the non-fiction book The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined.
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Destined to become a Classic, July 28 2011
By Diana L. Driver "Book Lover" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (Paperback)
eVolVe Two.Nancy Kilpatrick sets the bar high in the introduction of EVOLVE TWO . No vampire stereotypes allowed. Only archetypes. Only the original Nosferatu will be found in this collection of short stories.
EVOLVE TWO is a powerful collection of short stories divided into three sections; PRE-APOCALYPSE, POST-APOCALYPSE, and NEW WORLD ORDER. Each story is powerful enough to stand on its own merit while building on the preceding story and giving the reader new settings, characters, and storylines that go beyond the creative well of the ordinary.
Finish one story and you're eager to begin the next, and there are no disappointments. Each story lives up to and rises above expectations. The stories live on in memory - long after the book is closed. These are the vampires of the future. These are the tales that re-define vampires in the world of fiction.
EVOLVE TWO is destined to become a classic. Evolve Two is fiction at its very best.
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An Incredible Collection, Aug 11 2011
By Amanda Jade - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (Paperback)
Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead contains 22 short stories written by some of the greatest paranormal authors out there, including Tanith Lee, Kelley Armstrong, John Shirley, Thomas Roche, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Heather Clitheroe and more. Like the first Evolve, this collection of stories looks forward instead of back, it gives readers a new insight into the world of vampires, a fresh and unique take on our beloved blood drinkers. Unlike the first edition, this one is split up into three sections - pre-apocalypse, post-apocalypse and new world order. Due to my creepy obsession with vampires and apocalypses, I really loved seeing that.Like the first edition, Evolve 2 contains a wide variety of tales, no story is like the one before it, every author has their own voice and it's really shown off here. I would go from reading something mysterious or comedic, to something dark and terrifying.
As for the stories themselves, I was highly impressed with many of the authors in this book, such as Ivan Dorin, who penned the incredibly deep and intellectual story "Nosangreal." I also enjoyed Michael Lorenson's "Six Underground," which took vampires to a futuristic courthouse of all places. The world she created was one that I would LOVE to see more of. The entire world living in an underground labyrinth - who wouldn't want more of that? I also loved William Meikle's "Out With the Old" which was a glorious classic vampire horror story set in post-apocalyptic world. Loved it! And I I'll stop now before I gush over every wonderful story I read.
However, it wasn't all good, there were a few duds thrown in there. Some of the stories were surprisingly bland and unoriginal and I had to force myself through them. Fortunately those stories were limited, and the majority of the book was incredible.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Live, Feed, or Die, Dec 30 2011
By Christina Paige - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (Paperback)
This anthology presents a variety of vampiric futures, all of them exploring aspects of predator-prey relationships, some with humor, some via horror, several with truly original twists of the tail. The demarcations of hunter and hunted are often ambiguous. Stories are organized into three groups: Pre-Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, and New World Order; some of the Pre-Apocalypse stories, however, are already set in extreme conditions of over-population and global warming that are far past the tipping point, barely this side of the breakdown threshold.One of my favorites is "Six Underground" by Michael Lorenson: in a neat reversal of the film Twelve Angry Men, a lone juror who is convinced that a Guilty verdict should be returned sets out to convince the other 11. The story has cunning layers of logic and revelation, and more SF packed into its pages than any other three stories combined. "Toothless" is another standout, a detective story set in a near future where a few minutes of exposure to sunlight is enough to boil anyone's skin. (In both these stories, the differences between humans and vampires are vanishing.) The descriptions of how vampires are being affected by all the ambient radiation, and by human adaptations, are simultaneously hilarious and ghastly. "Nosangreal" by Ivan Dorin is the weirdest contribution, and yes, that's a compliment. The other two I enjoyed the most were "Out with the Old", a Post-Apocalyptic story by William Meikle, and Sandra Kasturi's "The Slow Turning of the World", which is the end piece, and an unusually successful example of pure narrative.
Ms. Kilpatrick did fine work here, and her Introduction essay is good to read in and of itself. Anyone looking for reading group material, or for examples of modern fiction to share with a literature class, should consider assigning some of these. Definitely recommended.
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