[Dragaera] Vlad in the well of Deep Time

[Steve Rapaport via Dragaera]

Ooh I would pay money to read this. Will you do it yourself, Alexxx?

On Saturday, 27 February 2016, Alexx Kay via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> Had a dream the other night in which I was reading a new Vlad book. It
> was, unusually, set in the extreme far future of the normal Dragaeran
> setting. Some historians (not necessarily any sort of human) were
> researching the Dragaeran Empire. Part of how they were proceeding was to
> create an AI simulation of Vlad. They were able to do this due to the
> large amount of documentation available on him; the books by SB, records
> in the Imperial Orb, and certain records from Dzur Mountain. He was a
> useful subject to 'resurrect' for many reasons. His wider travels among
> different cultures (and different class levels within those cultures) made
> him more likely than most to be able to adjust to the strange future he
> now found himself in. This wide experience also made him someone who was
> used to explaining strange cultural concepts to people who did not
> necessarily share the background to easily understand them, such as these
> researching historians. Another way in which Vlad is useful to them,
> though probably unplanned, is that he understands crime in a way that
> these academics living in a largely utopian setting do not. So Vlad ends
> up being the de facto detective when a murderer happens…
>
> Alexx
>
> "In fact, I'm normally too repressed to even say the approved
>  midwestern erotic phrases like, "Ouch," "Don't touch me there,"
>  and, "Quiet, the children will hear."           -- Nurse Jones
>
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\Steve