“CIVIL BLOOD” Book 1 of the Skia Project series by Chris Hepler, 2018 This vampire book is more science-fiction than horror and more action and scheming than science-fiction. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. With all the high tech spying and assassination, all circling around vampires, I am seriously reminded of Graeme Rodaughan’s Metaframe series. In the Skia Project series, with a cybernetic stimweb allowing a user to enhance and control their qi, or life energy, a sma