I think sometimes you get vampires that were turned so long ago that they've become something other by virtue of the distance of time from their human lives.

This is true--I do feel Ysidro from the James Asher books feel appropriately not-human, and the monk vampire character in the first book provided my favorite vampire scene in fiction for this exact reason. But in general, vampire characters seem to be me to be written like "people with over the top emotions" and not "something that is Other," which is what I was going for in this particular post.

The sentient spaceship 'mindships' in Aliette de Bodard's far-future Vietnamese history/mythology-inspired Xuya space opera universe;

COOL!

I could go on — I have such a long list of answers to this question!

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