Many warm girls (and not a few boys) wore plastic choppers and purple wigs to copy her. Mima, the vam in Cham-Cham, was a crossover artist. Two phantom soprani and a vampire contralto. Drinking fountains, food stall hotplates, rubbish bins. Holograms of the flounce-sleeved bubblegum trio wavered above mini projectors concealed in the oddest places. Lu lu too sousand zeiro zeiro Pātī wa owari – oops! – jikan ga nai… The multi-tracked rinky-dink organ riff made his fillings throb. The single might as well have been pressed on tissue paper. A remix of Prince’s ‘1999’ by the girl group Cham-Cham. The sky above the city was the colour of arterial blood splashed across a shower curtain. Unknown Male – Richard Jeperson (GEIST 97) The cover is by Martin Stiff at Amazing 15. You can order it from Forbidden Planet here. The distinguished guests are held hostage by yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries, and vampire schoolgirl Nezumi – agent of the Diogenes Club – finds herself pitted against the world’s deadliest creatures…’ But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls. ‘It is the eve of the new millennium, and vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance and culture. My new novel, Anno Dracula 1999 Daikaiju, will be published by Titan Books in October.
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