January 27, 2014

The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (Italian edition)

The novel “The Space Vampires” by Colin Wilson was published for the first time in 1976.

The starship Hermes is on a mission to explore the asteroids when it runs into a huge spaceship apparently abandoned. Captain Carlsen and his crew start exploring it and discover the bodies of what appear totally like human beings. These bodies are in a state of apparent death and it’s decided to bring back three of them to Earth.

A journalist, the son of an old friend of Captain Carlsen, is allowed to enter the laboratory in which the bodies found in space are kept. While he’s checking one of them, a woman, she wakes up and absorbs his life force. The aliens are vampires and if they aren’t stopped the consequences will be devastating for humanity.