Victims experience a coma-like state and high fever, after which they wake up with more energy than ever before, but also with strange behavior. He starts feeding, first on the Amish colonists’ farm animals, and then on the Amish and the crew. Of course what goes wrong is that Congi gets bitten by something that infects him with vampirism.
When the Amish colony is picked up, they are housed in the cargo bay right next to the one with the frozen scientist and the wreckage. It’s all very routine until one crew member, Greels, becomes obsessed with the frozen scientist, and another crew member, Congi, starts poking around the shipment of wreckage to see if there’s anything he can steal or resell. Space travel is so routine for this crew that it’s boring.Įn route to pick up the colonists, the ship picks up an injured scientist who has been cryogenically frozen until she reaches a destination with more medical care and the wreckage from her lab. The ship itself is large, with huge cargo bays, a large crew, cafeterias, etc, but the ship’s function is to make routine deliveries. A ship that is basically just a giant UPS truck picks them up. One colony needs to be evacuated due to problems with their sun. Amish communities make great colonists because they like the isolation from other cultures and they don’t rely on technology that is difficult or expensive to replace. Here’s the premise: in the far future, Amish colonists settle a terraformed planet. The book has humor, but it’s not silly overall. Instead of using the concept for parody or over-the-top madness, he managed to figure out a premise that would allow for there to be Amish vampires in space – as science fiction/horror. Much later, the author Kerry Nietz asked for permission to write a book to go with the cover. Just for fun, Jeff came up with a pretend title and cover for a non-existent novel. Jeff Gerke was working for a Christian publishing house that was inundated with Amish novels. My world is rocked.Īccording to the introduction, Amish Vampires in Space started as a joke. I was fully prepared to mock it to the heavens, but it turned out to be good – in a serious way, not as a parody. Clearly, one of us was going to have to read this, and that someone was me. At our podcast live recording at the RT Convention, someone stated that there is a book called Amish Vampires in Space.
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