The novel is at its core about human hubris. Or, at least, it's meant to show that there are various ways that consciousness can be understood or apprehended. The vampire thing is actually a kind of bridge between the human and alien ideas of consciousness in the book. I think the idea comes from some evolutionary psychology (see Julian Jaynes for instance) where some people believe that our brains were substantially different in past eons. It's more like a pre-human in a sort of caged savage state. hunts humans in its natural state) but it's not really a vampire vampire. They call it a vampire, and it has some similarities (e.g. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know!
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