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|main character= [[Imogen Tantry]], [[Lloyd Doihara]]
|name= Predating the Predators
|featuring= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|series=
|setting = [[Murigen]], [[June]] [[2609]]
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|writer= Philip Purser-Hallard
|featuring=  
|anthology= The Vampire Curse (anthology)
|year=  
|publisher= Big Finish Productions
|writer= [[Philip Purser-Hallard]]
|series= ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short stories
|publication= [[The Vampire Curse]]
|prev= Possum Kingdom (short story)
|prev= Possum Kingdom (short story)
|next=
|next= A Game of Soldiers (short story)
}}
|series2= ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|prev2= Possum Kingdom (short story)
|next2= Glory Days (audio story)
|release date=2 December 2008
}}{{prose stub}}
'''''Predating the Predators''''' was the third and final story in the [[Bernice Summerfield]] anthology ''[[The Vampire Curse (anthology)|The Vampire Curse]]''. It was written by [[Philip Purser-Hallard]]. Characters from this story would reappear in the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' short stories ''[[A Hundred Words from a Civil War (short story)|A Hundred Words from a Civil War]]'', ''[[De Umbris Idearum (short story)|De Umbris Idearum]]'', and ''[[Unification Theory (short story)|Unification Theory]]''.


== Summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
An aged Professor Summerfield is forced to confront the equally bloody past of a fellow attendee at the predictably ill-fated First Interdisciplinary Conference on Vampirology.
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''
''to be added''
== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Imogen Tantry]]
* [[Luke Duke]]
* [[Antonio Finlay]]
* [[Lloyd Doihara]]
* [[Gonzo (Predating the Predators)|Gonzo]]
* [[Stassy Leustassavil]]
* [[Olena]]
* [[Emanuel Valeriani]]
* [[Shabbir]]
* [[Tomek Yatson]]
* [[Stephen Cicero]]
* [[Krisztina-Judit Németh]]
* [[Fujio McHorowitz]]
* [[Mep'to]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Lloyd mentions the [[Mim]].
* [[Yesodi]] come from [[Kether]].
* The [[Blood Citadel]] of [[Alukah]] has architecture with similarities to "everything from [[Osirian]] to [[Dæmon]]ic".


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* Imogen and her sister [[Marina Tantry|Marina]] take their names from Shakespeare's plays ''[[Cymbeline (play)|Cymbeline]]'' and ''[[Pericles (play)|Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]''; Imogen's later title Beatrix II comes from ''Much Ado About Nothing''. The walking tree in Burnum Plaza is a reference to Birnam Wood in ''[[Macbeth]]''.
* The starship ''[[Serene Diameter]]'' takes its name from the ships used by the eponymous count in the novel ''[[Dracula (book)|Dracula]]'': the ''Demeter'' and the ''Czarina Catherine''. The name [[Meinir Doihara]] also echoes "Mina Harker", the married name of Jonathan Harker's [[fiancée]] Mina Murray from the same novel.
* The planet Murigen is named after the Celtic goddess Morrigan, and its three suns Nemhain, Fea, and Macha are the aspects of Morrigan from Celtic myth. Similarly, Lugh is Cuchulainn's sun, despite Cuchulainn being Lugh's son in myth.
* The aquatic Lavellan species is named for the la-mhalan of Scottish folklore.
* The "Lithian question" is a reference to James Blish’s 1958 novel {{wi|A Case of Conscience}}, which also features a Jesuit encountering a secular alien race.
* Luke Duke's name comes from the {{wi|Father Ted}} episode "{{w|A Christmassy Ted}}".
* The word "alukah", meaning a vampiric shapeshifter, comes from the Book of Proverbs, though it's sometimes translated as "horse leech". "[[Ekimmu]]" comes from Sumerian mythology.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Imogen notes that Bernice resembles [[Bernice Summerfield (clone)|the President]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Amendment (audio story)|The Final Amendment]]'')
* The planet [[Entruria]] is the homeworld of the [[Entrustine Horde]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'')
* Bernice says that she has fought [[demon]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infernal Nexus (novel)|The Infernal Nexus]]'') [[zombie]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beyond the Sea (audio story)|Beyond the Sea]]'') and [[witch]]es; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]]'') eaten [[pizza]] with [[God (The Also People)|God]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]'') played [[cricket]] with [[Sherlock Holmes]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') been to [[Hell (planet)|Hell]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)|Emperor of the Daleks!]]'') witnessed the fall of the dinosaurs, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Adolescence of Time (audio story)|The Adolescence of Time]]'') met [[Oscar Wilde]], and encountered vampires several times earlier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'', ''[[The Badblood Diaries (short story)|The Badblood Diaries]]'', ''[[Possum Kingdom (short story)|Possum Kingdom]]'')
* [[Vlad III]] of [[Wallachia]] isn't a vampire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
* [[Krisztina-Judit Németh]] was previously seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]''.
* [[Alukah]]ite culture influenced Earth's early vampire myths. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
 
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Predating the Predators was the third and final story in the Bernice Summerfield anthology The Vampire Curse. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard. Characters from this story would reappear in the Faction Paradox short stories A Hundred Words from a Civil War, De Umbris Idearum, and Unification Theory.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

An aged Professor Summerfield is forced to confront the equally bloody past of a fellow attendee at the predictably ill-fated First Interdisciplinary Conference on Vampirology.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Imogen and her sister Marina take their names from Shakespeare's plays Cymbeline and Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Imogen's later title Beatrix II comes from Much Ado About Nothing. The walking tree in Burnum Plaza is a reference to Birnam Wood in Macbeth.
  • The starship Serene Diameter takes its name from the ships used by the eponymous count in the novel Dracula: the Demeter and the Czarina Catherine. The name Meinir Doihara also echoes "Mina Harker", the married name of Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray from the same novel.
  • The planet Murigen is named after the Celtic goddess Morrigan, and its three suns Nemhain, Fea, and Macha are the aspects of Morrigan from Celtic myth. Similarly, Lugh is Cuchulainn's sun, despite Cuchulainn being Lugh's son in myth.
  • The aquatic Lavellan species is named for the la-mhalan of Scottish folklore.
  • The "Lithian question" is a reference to James Blish’s 1958 novel A Case of Conscience, which also features a Jesuit encountering a secular alien race.
  • Luke Duke's name comes from the Father Ted episode "A Christmassy Ted".
  • The word "alukah", meaning a vampiric shapeshifter, comes from the Book of Proverbs, though it's sometimes translated as "horse leech". "Ekimmu" comes from Sumerian mythology.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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