Batman Apollo (Russian: «Бэтман Аполло») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2013.The novel is a sequel to Pelevin's 2006 vampire novel Empire V. The main character is the same – the young vampire Rama. The vampires in the novel feed on "bablos," which is a kind of metaphysical concentrate of money, and they fool people with the help of glamour and discourse. As the author writes: Glamour is sex expressed through money, discourse is sex that is lacking, expressed through money that is not. Source: Wikipedia (en)