![]() ![]() The rising body count and growing paranoia make for a ripping tale of deep-space terror. Strangely, the ship’s sole crewmember, Royd Eris, hides behind the bulkheads, limiting his contact with the passengers to his intercom and a holographic image.Īfter some deadly and suspicious accidents, the team begins to suspect Royd is an artificial intelligence who’s covering up for a menacing inhuman presence stalking them on the ship. His motley collection of academics travels on a starcraft called the Nightflyer to reach the enigmatic aliens. ![]() We learn that a man named Karoly d’Branin has assembled an underfunded research mission to seek contact with the volcryn. “When Jesus of Nazareth hung dying on his cross, the volcryn passed within a light-year of his agony, headed outward,” the story’s unnamed narrator explains. “Nightflyers ,” available in Martin’s Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective, opens by describing an ancient alien race, the volcryn, who have been traveling the universe for millennia without direct human contact. Some, including the 1980 novella “Nightflyers,” was dark enough to drift in that chilling stretch of space between sf and horror. ![]() Martin penned science fiction that was every bit as dark and rewarding as his epic fantasy. The cover of the 1985 TOR edition of Nightflyersīefore the HBO series, the best seller list and the late night talk show appearances, Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. ![]()
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