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"This is the least reprinted of Powers's novels and admittedly a minor one - but it is post-nuclear weird fiction at it's finest - just slightly a Mad Max meets Cthulhu tale of a sort. Just slightly. Powers is a Catholic and he avows that he doesn't ever intentionally lace his fiction with a 'message'. But there is a very subtle theology of self and others in this work - about the former's existential and literal vampirism on the latter. It's about a very powerful, but finite, being trying to play tyrant god over his 'lessers'. It's sort of a negative of the Christian doctrine of God as self-giving love. It's full of moments of very fine prose and very quirky, creepy imagination - e.g. there's a semi-preternatural character called a 'hemogoblin'! You gotta respect that."

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