I'll second anything by Stross or Pratchett (although IIRC the zombie Nazis were on an alternate Earth devoid of atmosphere). I've also read and enjoyed Armor, Starship Troopers, and most of Lovecraft. I'll have to check out your other recommendations.
I gave up on Dracula about halfway through because it was too melodramatic for me. Maybe it was an artifact of it being serialized and every chapter ending in a cliffhanger. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday.
Vampire$ sounds cool, I'll have to check out the John Carpenter movie at least. It sounds kinda like the manga/anime/OVA Hellsing, which is really fucking cool if you can put yourself in the mindset of a goth 14 year old and don't mind violence and gore. At one point Dracula crashes an SR-71 into an aircraft carrier full of Nazi ghouls and crucifies them on the wreckage. There's also the Hellsing Abridged series if you're into the whole brevity thing.
Vampires is... It's got wayyyy to many dick jokes, I'm pretty sure there's a scene where vampire strippers eat everyone, and there's just shedloads of blood. It's not mature. it's not highbrow. it probably has some problematic shit I am forgetting. But if htere was a dirtbag vampire movie it is this.
I'll second anything by Stross or Pratchett (although IIRC the zombie Nazis were on an alternate Earth devoid of atmosphere). I've also read and enjoyed Armor, Starship Troopers, and most of Lovecraft. I'll have to check out your other recommendations.
I gave up on Dracula about halfway through because it was too melodramatic for me. Maybe it was an artifact of it being serialized and every chapter ending in a cliffhanger. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday.
Vampire$ sounds cool, I'll have to check out the John Carpenter movie at least. It sounds kinda like the manga/anime/OVA Hellsing, which is really fucking cool if you can put yourself in the mindset of a goth 14 year old and don't mind violence and gore. At one point Dracula crashes an SR-71 into an aircraft carrier full of Nazi ghouls and crucifies them on the wreckage. There's also the Hellsing Abridged series if you're into the whole brevity thing.
Vampires is... It's got wayyyy to many dick jokes, I'm pretty sure there's a scene where vampire strippers eat everyone, and there's just shedloads of blood. It's not mature. it's not highbrow. it probably has some problematic shit I am forgetting. But if htere was a dirtbag vampire movie it is this.