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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It's funny how Vampires have undergone a resurgence (again)... you just can't keep those bloodsuckers down!
I wonder, though, if there isn't room for some new characters forged out of more modern lore. Vampire legends were originally borne out of fear of outsiders, combined with ignorance of medical facts. Legends of werewolves, zombies, and other ancient monsters, came from similar past beliefs and ignorances. What lore is there around today that shapes our modern monsters? (Besides deeply-demented serial killers and terrorists, the obvious modern monsters, that is.)
It seems there is a lot of fear of cloning... identity theft... pathogens stronger than the human immune system... genetic manipulation. Where are the monsters for that?
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Hmm... Rewrite of the fugitive? An average man used as a fall guy for some government worker's evil, all dumped into various computers (a form of identity theft?) Lots of room to look at the concept of identity and how it pervades the current and future world?