(pb; 1976)
From the back cover
“When Captain Carlsen entered the vast derelict spaceship, he was stunned by its awesome splendor—and shaken by the discovery of its immobilized humanoid passengers.
“Later, after three of those
strange aliens had been transported to Earth, his foreboding was more than
justified. The creatures were energy vampires whose seductive embraces were
fatal, whose lust for vitality was boundless. As they took over the willing
bodies of their victims and sexual murders spread terror throughout the land,
Carlsen worked toward their destruction—even though he was erotically drawn to
the most beautiful vampire of all!”
Review
Space is an excellent science fiction/horror novel that deftly balances the older style of classic science fiction novels of the 1950s (with its emphasis on focused and intense scientific explanations, sometimes delivered by talkative aliens), earthier pulpy thrills (R-rated sex, terror, heroes and antagonists who aren’t binary good-or-bad), and classic horror/vampiric tropes and framing. It’s a streamlined, burn-through, real-world believable and sometimes cliffhanger-ish read, one of my favorite books that I’ve read this year. Worth owning, this.
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The resulting R rated film,
titled Lifeforce, was released stateside on June 21, 1985. Tobe Hooper directed
it, from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon and Don Jakoby.
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