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Vampire World (Trilogy) (1993)
Brian Lumley
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In these sequels to Necroscope, the twin sons of Harry Keogh living in the remains of a black hole continue to fight vampires. One of the sons has visions of a "vortex of numbers". He seeks the assistance of a spirit to help him deal with these visions and ends up communicating with a sort of ghostly mathematician who talks to him about (among other things) the difference between Roman numerals and the decimal system (though I get the feeling that the author may think that place value notation only works in base 10).

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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction, Fantasy, Horror,
MotifAliens,
Topic
MediumNovels,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

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