Snape and Tiptree

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 3472

Funny Peg should mention Tiptree's "The Women Men Don't See".  Yes, I
remember that story VERY well.  It was one of the first Tiptree's I ever
read.  "Two of our opossums are missing."   What an incredible ending. 
I wish I had gotten to meet Alice, but she stayed away from cons.

People are wondering how you can be 'half vampire' - what happens if a
woman exchanges* blood with a vampire >while pregnant< but does not go
so far as to die?  Then later gives birth?   The child may be modified
by the vampire essence in the blood.... cf. the Claude Rains movie
_Condemned to Live_.  In that way they could be both human and vampiric.

-Brooks


*Remember that according to some interpretations of _Dracula_, and
specifically defined in Anne Rice and Fred Saberhagen, it is not that
the victim of a vampire becomes him/her-self a vampire - but rather a
person who has ingested vampire's blood while at the same time dying
from loss of his.her own.  In  other words, the vampire is not so much
getting nourishment, as reproducing.