Blindsight
Att citera från Wikipedia-sidan :
Years afterwards, a comet-surveying satellite stumbles across a radio transmission originating from a comet, subsequently named ‘Burns-Caulfield’. This tight-beam broadcast is directed to an unknown location and in fact does not intersect the Earth at any point. As this is the first opportunity to learn more about the extraterrestrials, three waves of ships are sent out: the first being light probes shot out for an as-soon-as-possible flyby of the comet, then a wave of heavier but better-equipped probes, and finally a manned ship, the Theseus.
Theseus is propelled by an antimatter reactor and captained by an artificial intelligence. It carries a crew of five cutting-edge transhuman hyper-specialists of whom one is a genetically-reincarnated vampire and acts as the nominal mission commander.
Vi har vår mystiska rock, vår "vampyr" och så vidare. Det börjar dock inte med bokstaven C.