Eddie Rialto is the self-declared ‘last man in Dublin’, with the city itself populated entirely by V’s, former humans who have transformed themselves with what are called ‘Vulcanist devices’. This technology is fuelled by blood and has led to a resurgent British Empire, which controls this new industrial revolution. Rialto is himself the son of the main producer of Vulcanist devices and chosen to exile himself in Dublin. The story tells of what happens to him on the last day of his life and is intended as an off-hand mash up of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Eddie Rialto is the self-declared ‘last man in Dublin’, with the city itself populated entirely by V’s, former humans who have transformed themselves with what are called ‘Vulcanist devices’. This technology is fuelled by blood and has led to a resurgent British Empire, which controls this new industrial revolution. Rialto is himself the son of the main producer of Vulcanist devices and chosen to exile himself in Dublin. The story tells of what happens to him on the last day of his life and is intended as an off-hand mash up of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and James Joyce’s Ulysses.