![]() ![]() The novel begins two days after nineteen-year-old Thompson moves from Texas to New York City to start college. The novel blends the phenomenon of the sexually transmitted infection, a common anxiety for young adults, with the literary archetypes of the zombie and vampire, to create a modern horror plot. He is recruited by the Night Watch to trawl New York City, preventing the vampiric epidemic from spreading. When Thompson’s infection fails to affect him with all of its usual symptoms, he realizes he is immune. People in the diseased state are called “peeps,” short for “parasite positives,” and are hunted by an ancient society called the Night Watch. Taking place in New York, it follows a would-be college freshman Cal Thompson, who contracts a supernatural STI that normally alters human behavior, endowing the infected with strange abilities. ![]() Peeps is a 2005 young adult science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. ![]()
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