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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9880253" data-attributes="member: 86653">I finished the Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories yesterday. Despite the inconsistency I mentioned above and more than a few missed pieces of fiction that should have been listed, it’s a great resource for Weird War. Quite a few of my favorite movies, TV shows, RPGs, video games, comics, short stories, and novels are listed. It’s kinda great having a genre (or subgenre) label to reference when trying to find new stuff I’ll most likely dig. Unfortunately, there’s also a mountain of books and videos that use “weird war” as a means to describe odd things that happened in historical wars, the odd plans of the Germans during WW2 and some of their failed super weapons as just one example. # And I finished a novel today, Operation: Vampyr. It’s written by David Bishop and is based on Fiends of the Eastern Front, a comic strip appearing in 2000 AD. As much as I loved the premise, the writing lets it down. Romanian vampires as soldiers in WW2. They act as pilots, tank crews, special night-time stealth units, etc. It’s a fantastic premise. But the writing is mostly in a summary, tell mode that leaves a lot to be desired. There is actual action and in-scene dialogue, etc, but it felt like the bulk of the word count was tell-mode summary. The main view-point characters are the Vollmer brothers, one a pilot, one a tank commander, and one a regular foot soldier. The story follows them as they encounter vampires in their various roles during the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German push into Russia. The vampires don’t show up until about 1/4 of the way through the novel and by about 1/2 of the way the Vollmer brothers know what they are and resist them however they can. There’s a few scenes of vampire powers in action during war time. But the author seems to occasionally forget what his vamps can do. He also adds in a vulnerability to silver that is required for the story to work, but is really less than satisfying.</blockquote>

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