SCOTT, Jody (Huguelet Wood)

(1923-)

   UK-born US writer whose 2 sf novels, Passing for Human (1977) and I, Vampire (1984), comprise a joyously and at times scatologically tangled SATIRE of the post-industrial Western world from a FEMINIST point of view that wittily verges on misandry. The 2nd vol-whose protagonist, the female vampire Sterling O'Blivion, is only intermittently relevant to the action - ends in a state of violent confusion after a love affair between O'Blivion and an ALIEN who closely resembles Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), though a central message does remain: an arraignment ofexploitation (or vampirism), whether on the part of slave-trading aliens, Earth-bound capitalists, men or women.

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   See also: SUPERNATURAL CREATURES.