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Nightshade Summary & Study Guide Description
Nightshade Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Nightshade Themes
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Paradoxically, almost, since Nightshade is a science-fiction novel set more than a century in the future on another planet, with a central character who is 350-year-old vampire born on Earth before the American Revolution, the book's major themes are quite traditional. They include love, loyalty, honor, the value of human communion, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Thematically, then, Nightshade operates in the mainstream of traditional modern fiction, although this fact may be obscured for less careful readers by the book's more obvious membership in the fictional genre (or subgenre) of science fiction.
Sometimes we say, when a sciencefiction novel turns out to possess conspicuous literary merit, that the book "transcends the genre," as if science fiction were some inferior ethnic variety of the species fiction that only rarely might be expected to rise above mediocrity. The truth is that there is but one genre, fiction, and...
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