'There’s an I Am Legend overtone as vampire myths are expounded by humans-in-hiding in Undead-occupied Europe' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.50).
'Malaysian vampire myths are utilised in the conservation fight by an unusual eco-warrior' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.50).
'A 1940s pied piper puts a vampiric slant on an old tale as he gives a Jew-hunting Nazi a lesson in occupied Denmark' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.50).
'Dracula’s Quincy Morris gets a lesson in vampire slaying in America’s Wild West' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.50).
Stephen Dedman delves 'into Van Helsing’s childhood, with a detour to the US and the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.50).
A new drug, sundance, has burnt out its users' optic nerves in exchange for psychedelic hallucinations. Many prefer the effects of sundance to having vision, such as Suki, who is in rehabilitation called 'retraining'. An undersecretary, Jack, grapples with the politics and costs of providing new medical eyes to the blind. He believes that those who blinded themselves shouldn't be helped.
When Europe announces it will begin giving out free eyes, Jack finds counterarguments in the low quality of the eyes' vision, successfully staving off demands for his own government to do the same.
Suki's 'retraining' turns out to be prostitution, with Jack the undersecretary her client.
