But I can keep my other.
I will not leave him alone with her.
Ever.
DEDICATION
BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Song of Ice and Fire
Book One: A Game of Thrones
Book Two: A Clash of Kings
Book Three: A Storm of Swords
Book Four: A Feast for Crows
Book Five: A Dance with Dragons
The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
Dying of the Light
Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle)
Fevre Dream
The Armageddon Rag
Dead Man’s Hand (with John J. Miller)
Short Story Collections
Dreamsongs: Volume I
Dreamsongs: Volume II
A Song for Lya and Other Stories
Songs of Stars and Shadows
Sandkings
Songs the Dead Men Sing
Nightflyers
Tuf Voyaging
Portraits of His Children
Quartet
Edited by George R. R. Martin
New Voices in Science Fiction, Volumes 1-4
The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book (with Isaac Asimov and Martin Harry Greenberg)
The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5
Night Visions 3
Wild Cards I-XXII
Co-edited with Gardner Dozois
Warriors I-III
Songs of the Dying Earth
Down These Strange Streets
Old Mars
Dangerous Women
Rogues
Old Venus
The Book of Swords
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). As a writer-producer, Martin has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
DAVID PALUMBO is a Philadelphia-based painter known primarily for fantasy and horror genre illustration. His work is characterized by dark themes and moody atmosphere with a traditional painterly technique. Palumbo, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, began his career showing in galleries in 2003, but his primary focus has long been centered on illustration. His images have since won numerous honors and have been featured in exhibits from New York to Paris.
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Copyright
Nightflyers is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1980, 1981 by George R. R. Martin
Text illustrations copyright © 2018 by David Palumbo
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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From Binary Star 5 (Dell, 1981). A shorter version of this story originally appeared in Analog, April 1980, copyright © 1980 by the Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Published as part of Dreamsongs: Volume I (Bantam, 2007).
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Names: Martin, George R. R., author.
Title: Nightflyers / George R. R. Martin.
Description: Illustrated edition. | New York : Bantam, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018005083 | ISBN 9780525619680 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525619697 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Space ships—Fiction. | Murder—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Horror fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3563.A7239 N54 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005083
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