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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why the fuck are we on Mars? What are we really building here? Lexi confronts the possibility that no one could escape the technocratic ascendancy that took colonists to Mars. Vampire Daddy 26: “If You Don’t Fail Me” (2 October 2026). lcdouglass.substack.com/p/vampire-da... #booksky 🪐📚 #scifi

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Vampire Daddy 26: If You Don’t Fail Me

Vampire Daddy 26: Why the fuck are we on Mars? What are we really building here?

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another week of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction on Substack: SCI-FRIDAY! lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday...

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Vampire Daddy Chapter 25: New Saxony 2 follows Primeva across Mars toward New Saxony, where a mysterious soldier triggers an impossible memory from another life – and her first words in Russian. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/vampire-da... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction

Alt text: Promotional banner for the serial novel at Substack lcdouglass.substack.com: Vampire Daddy 25: New Saxony 2: Weakness is the Enemy. Below the title, an overhead fisheye view shows Primeva in a white spacesuit, seated in a glass-walled Martian elevator and writing Russian words on a tablet, while Dr. Garin and a military android stand nearby. Red canyon cliffs rise outside the elevator windows.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve put together a page for Isis Chrysalis, my nearly completed novel-in-stories that reveals the larger world behind Vampire Daddy. If you’re curious, you can explore it here: Enter Isis Chrysalis www.lcdouglass.com/isischrysalis #scifi #speculativefiction #sacramentalrealism

$I’d use: > **Promotional banner for *Isis Chrysalis*, a prequel to *Vampire Daddy*, the serialized Substack novel by Canadian author L. C. Douglass. A moonlit mountain valley leads toward the *Isis Chrysalis* title beside a fractured dark figure merging into a star-filled cosmos. Text reads “From the world of Vampire Daddy” and “Discover the prequel.” Learn more at LCDouglass.com/IsisChrysalis.**$

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Primeva is the last chance to revive the human race. So why risk taking her to New Saxony? Because you can’t have Eden without Eve: “NEW SAXONY 1: ANOMALIES” (18 September 2026). lcdouglass.substack.com/p/vampire-da... #booksky #scifi #speculativefiction

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Explore the latest of Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction on Substack! SCI-FRIDAY 17 lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday... #sci-fi #sciencefiction #specfic #speculativefiction

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Sci-Friday 17

Another week of the best of sci-fi and speculative fiction on Substack!

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

300 Substack subscribers! Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed to, or followed, Vampire Daddy. It means a great deal to see this community growing around the story. Thank you for coming to Mars with me. 🖤 www.vampiredaddy.com #scifi

Promotional banner celebrating 300 Substack subscribers for LC Douglass’s serialized novel Vampire Daddy. In a futuristic House of Batons genetics laboratory, humanoid sphinx creatures stand inside a glass enclosure while a pale, red-eyed keeper tends to them and a dark-robed vampire observes from behind the glass. Gold text reads: “THANK YOU — TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS & FOLLOWERS — 300 SUBSCRIBERS ON SUBSTACK — VAMPIRE DADDY — VAMPIREDADDY.COM.”

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another week of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction on Substack! lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday...

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Sci-Friday 16

Another week of the best of Sci-Fi and Speculative fiction on Substack!

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Vampire Daddy website has had a major update! New Table of Contents, new worldbuilding, and a much better way to explore the story. Come have a look: vampiredaddy.com

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Explore the latest Sci Friday: a curated selection of science fiction and speculative fiction authors on Substack, plus sci-fi stories, podcasts, writing communities, and groups worth discovering. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday...

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Sci-Friday 15

You’re the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen. Please don’t go.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vive l'avenir ! Another week of the best of the sci-fi and speculative world on Substack! lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday...

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Vive l'avenir ! Another week of the best of the sci-fi and speculative world on Substack!

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have a new free post up on Patreon for all subscribers: Earth’s Great Unconformity, Martian Impacts and the Resurfacing of Venus - on unsettling gaps in the history in our solar system www.patreon.com/LCDouglass/p...

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Earth’s Great Unconformity, Martian Impacts and the Resurfacing of Venus | LC Douglass

One of the greatest mysteries on Earth is called the Great Unconformity, defined in a search summary as: “The Great Unconformity is a widesp

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Current draft of the Vampire Daddy manuscript, 60k. 🚀

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

FIRST CALL TO TERRA INCOGNITA: how does a species with amnesia navigate the unknown all around us? What is the human condition and why is AI not diametrically opposed to humanity? lcdouglass.substack.com/p/the-horror... #humancondition #artificialintelligence

A banner imposed over Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, which reads: FIRST CALL TO TERRA INCOGNITA.

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ㅤ Tiny forest growing on a single pine cone — Hana_b30 ㅤ

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Infidelity. Betrayal. Catastrophe. Lexi’s problems have problems. Kijo’s affair draws Lexi into an imperial plan to manage the primordial Martian demon awakening inside her. Coming in: Vampire Daddy 23: “Too Human” (21 August 2026) lcdouglass.substack.com/p/vampire-da... #scifi #speculativefiction

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Vampire Daddy 23: Too Human

Infidelity. Betrayal. Catastrophe. Kijo’s affair draws Lexi into an imperial plan to manage the primordial Martian demon awakening inside her.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Another week of the best of sci-fi and speculative fiction on Substack! lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday... #scifi

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Sci Friday 13

Another week of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction on Substack!

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No Human Knows the Actual History of Humanity. The Dark that Moves Us. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/the-dark-t... #sci-fi #scifi #speculativefiction #causaltime

A FADED depiction of the hero retreating from broken empty bottles of Honeydew, the memory-restoring elixir, in LC Douglass's novel, Vampire Daddy. Projected over that scene in glowing cream letters is the article title: THE DARK THAT MOVES US and the URL LCDOUGLASS.SUBSTACK.COM.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Vampire Daddy has reached 200 subscribers on Substack! THANK YOU to all subs and followers! Martian Gothic is building! READ IT HERE: lcdouglass.substack.com/p/table-of-c... #scifi #vampirefiction #newnovels

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The best of speculative and science fiction on Substack! Today, also, beautiful illustrations and para-academics. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday...

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A LIST of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction authors on Substack each week! Last week's list ranges from a Vedic Lemur civilization to an extravagant sci-fi drama about an imperial racing circuit open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla...

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Just read the instructions.

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KPimpinella @kpimpinella.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Where to find me. Author: K. Pimpinella www.kpimpinella.com Book Coaching: Story Blueprints www.storyblueprints.com Sci-fi Writing Community: Space Authors www.storyblueprints.com/space-authors Sci-fi is my life! #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity #BookCoaching #SciFiWriters

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's some of my research and world-building for my novel, Vampire Daddy (lcdouglass.substack.com/p/table-of-c...). In an upcoming installment, we go to Hebes Chasma. Hebes is an eye-shaped canyon with a mountain in the middle. In 2013, a gigantic square area collapsed on the surface of the mesa.

A square depression photographed by the European Space Agency in 2013, which shows a collapsed area in the mountainous mesa in the middle of Hebes Chasma on Mars.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting how the same trope can be retranslated over time, like The Cask of Amontillado becomes Back Rooms

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

An exploration of research for world-building in my novel, Vampire Daddy. substack.com/home/post/p-... #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #worldbuilding

Kijo, the Imperial princess, walks through the Astrotheological Library in the Ark Palace at Marineris on Mars. Beneath soaring Gothic arches and celestial domes, she carries an ancient book past astronomical instruments and shelves of rare manuscripts. A portrait of Emperor Severin Konstantin I overlooks the grand library, where knowledge, faith, empire, and destiny converge in the world of Vampire Daddy by Larissa C. Douglass.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A huge thank you! VAMPIRE DADDY has just passed its first 100 subscribers on Substack! To celebrate, the paywall came down on Installment 22, 'You Could Be a Villain." You can now read the first 4 installments and the 22nd installment of the novel for free. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/table-of-c...

Banner for Vampire Daddy by Larissa Douglass. Four main characters gather around a laptop on the terrace of an ancient Martian pyramid, celebrating the project's first 100 Substack subscribers. Primeva sits at the computer while Lexi, Kepa, and Kijo lean in to share the moment. Ancient murals, a desert backdrop, and the words "Substack First 100 Subs," "Vampire Daddy," "vampiredaddy.com," and "THANK YOU" complete the scene.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fiction we write right now is the essence of the culture of our time that has not yet been expressed. We are searching for a 2020s’ zeitgeist. Social media shows a search for something more, perhaps a yearning for stories that are being written now which encapsulate the meaning of our times.

A Gothic arched stone ornate window frame with a view of the Martian desolate landscape at night.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Vampire Daddy 22: “You Could Be a Villain,” Lexi is forced to confront why the people he loved feared him and why their secrets are held in a sealed archive on Mars. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/vampire-da...

$Chapter 22 of LC Douglass's serial novel, Vampire Daddy: "You Could Be a Villain." Natasha and Evelina "Linka" Sandelin stand together in an aging city street in Stone Town, Zanzibar, while Lexi watches from the shadows behind them, as though entering psychically via the memory held inside an old photograph. The image suggests hidden histories, fractured families, and the search for truth across generations. Link: LCDOUGLASS.SUBSTACK.COM$

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A major new storyline is unfolding in Vampire Daddy: COLLAPSE REVERSAL. In a civilization built on control of possible futures, Primeva’s arrival begins to reopen timelines again. lcdouglass.substack.com/s/vampire-da... #speculativefiction #scifi #vampirefiction

In the golden-lit Palladio Arcade, Primeva kneels beneath the ancient Jade Tree as an elder presents her with a bottle of the legendary Primeva elixir. Around them, vampires quietly gather in humility rather than worship, carrying flowers and offerings beneath the glowing storefront. The scene marks the beginning of "Collapse Reversal," a pivotal storyline in LC Douglass's Martian Gothic serial novel, Vampire Daddy, in which a civilization begins rediscovering compassion, hope, and its lost humanity.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Where is the technocracy taking us? Truth is stranger than fiction. open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla...

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What? A list of top speculative authors on Substack? - Check it out every week, Sci-Friday. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/sci-friday-7

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Sci-Friday 7

Sci-Friday returns with another list of fantastic sci-fi and speculative authors on Substack!

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵

A purple background with a leaf silhouette border. Within the border, the following text appears: "Augur Magazine, 2026, July 1 - July 15, submissions now open. $100 cad per poem. $0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words). $112 cad per flash fic (<800 words). augursociety.org/submissions. SCIFI. Fantasy. slipstream." Within a peach-coloured box, there is an icon of a paper plane with the text "Pass it on."

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Ciro Capao @cirocapao.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What would you be willing to do, if your life depended on the attention of strangers? Find out in my latest short story: The Last Experience. Give it a read and let me know what you think! #scifi #fiction #shortstory 💙📚🪐 cirocapao.substack.com/p/the-last-e...

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The Last Experience

A science fiction short-story about the cost of a life.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Explore the real White Nights and Scarlet Sails festival in Saint Petersburg and discover how these iconic celebrations inspired LC Douglass's novel, Vampire Daddy. #piter open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla...

The image shows young Aleksej Rönnberg and Evelina Sandelin posing together during Saint Petersburg's Scarlet Sails celebration, with fireworks and the famous red-sailed ship behind them. Diagnostic screens, decryption progress bars, and system warnings surround the image as an AI uncovers long-buried records from Aleksej's human past in LC Douglass’s serial novel, Vampire Daddy.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A peek at my writing process for subscribers as Vampire Daddy gets much, much darker in July's upcoming Part 22: "Don't Leave Us." lcdouglass.substack.com/p/eerie-nights

A photograph of author LC Douglass's handwritten copy of an upcoming section of her novel, Vampire Daddy. Under the title for subscribers: Eerie Nights.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hail the broken heart of the vampire, who only wants what immortality can never offer: love. Vampire Daddy 21. open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla... #scifi #booksky

Childhood memory of Aleksej Rönnberg and his younger sister Natasha sitting on autumn grass with their beloved dog. Golden leaves surround them beneath a Gothic stone arch in a peaceful Russian park, preserving a moment from a life Lexi believed had been erased.

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Research for my sci-fi novel, Vampire Daddy, has led me to Polish sci-fi and the film, 'On the Silver Globe.' OMG amazing. #film #scifi

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A new comment on the spiritual perils of space exploration and colonization: We can succeed technologically and fail spiritually. What is the point of digging this hole, only to fall into it? lcdouglass.substack.com/p/author-mus... #scifi

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Author Musings 3: Blind Spots in the Medical Metaphysical Realm

An essay on Vampire Daddy explores its medical-metaphysical form of vampirism, where the vampire body is made from a revenant corpse, a demonic possession, and a vampiric avatar. The post connects got...

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Larissa C Douglass @lcdouglass.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Arcadia Colony is dying. Centuries later, Mars is still repeating their words: Death comes ’round again. Vampire Daddy #20 open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla... #scifi #mysteries #mars

Promotional banner for Vampire Daddy. Inside a domed observatory at Arcadia Colony on Mars, a small group of settlers gathers beneath a telescope overlooking the red Martian landscape. At the center, colony leader Neil Abernathy sits with his head buried in his hands after he and his wife suffered the loss of their unborn child – the first child to die in Arcadia. Fellow colonists surround him in quiet support as the settlement glows beyond the glass dome. The banner features the title Vampire Daddy above the scene and the haunting phrase, “death comes ’round again,” with Vampiredaddy.com below. The image evokes grief, isolation, and the growing sense that something dark is unfolding on Mars.

A dark science-fiction promotional banner for Vampire Daddy #20. In a dimly lit Martian habitat bedroom, a man sits upright in bed and turns toward a shadowy human figure standing silently in a doorway. Warm amber light from a window reveals the red-orange glow of the Martian sky outside, while metallic walls and industrial furnishings create an atmosphere of isolation and unease. A decorative excerpt card overlays the lower-left corner, framed in antique gold, featuring the quote: “Now we know Mars in all its power, and the voices began to call to me. They said: Death comes around again.” The card is attributed to Vampire Daddy #20 and dated Friday 12 June 2026. The overall mood is haunting, mysterious, and literary, evoking psychological horror and cosmic suspense on Mars.

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