Ian Patterson Interview

Question one, Dracula gets dropped onto Dune.

Would the Freeman kill him or would he set up a minor empire of his own? And for the record, we're talking classical Dracula.

Yeah.

The weird seductive horror.

Um, Boy, classical Dracula can survive daylight, right?

Good question.

Because if

he's stuck out in the dunes, is he just going to get roasted? Yeah.

Boy.

That's...

All right, I'm going to go with no, because as he's drinking the blood of his victims, that is... taking their liquids and for the freeman that's like with their forget the name of the suit but their suit still

like

yeah um i mean wouldn't that be like tantamount to the worst theft that you could do it

would but it would also like fast track the spice into his system i think

oh i didn't even think about that i think there's an angle that you could write this and i think I think Dracula becomes a water vampire and preys on the Fremen.

I'm

about to suck your water.

Exactly.

Because there's so much like, so much about Dune is about like, you know, conserving your water and this sort of like mythos of water.

So I don't know, you dropped Dracula down there.

I could, I could see a story where he's like, he's just preying on people for their water.

Fair.

all right but yeah if he dies in the sunlight that's a he's dead

i don't remember it's been a really long time um

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