Things start to take a turn for the worse after the xenotech Alys Northwind accidentally cuts her finger with a kitchen knife. The team's psipsych Agatha Marij-Black drugs Thale with the drug psionine-4 to keep him calm. The team's telepath Thale Lasamer senses there is something dangerous aboard the Nightflyer. Over the next five weeks, the passengers speculate about the secretive nature of their mysterious captain. Royd secretly spies on the passengers using computer monitors. The enigmatic Royd keeps to his own sphere of the ship, preferring to correspond with the passengers via hologram. Due to limited funds, d'Branin has hired the services of the Nightflyer, a modified trader owned by captain Royd Eris. The main protagonist is Melantha Jhirl, a dark-skinned genetically engineered human who is a head taller than the other scholars. Plot summary Ī nine-member team of Academy scholars from the planet Avalon led by the astrophysicist Karoly d'Branin are searching for the volcryn, an enigmatic alien species with an advanced interstellar travel technology. Humanity is interested in acquiring the advanced interstellar technology of the volcryn, an enigmatic alien species. For a thousand years, humanity waged war with an alien species called the Hrangan, which caused the collapse of the Federal Empire. The Federated Nations of Earth eventually morphed into the Federal Empire. In the distant past, the humans of the Federated Nations of Earth discovered the stardrive. Nightflyers is set in the distant future. A 2018 television adaptation of the extended novella was developed television presentation began on December 2, 2018, on the SyFy Channel. In 1987, the short novella was adapted into a film by the same name. A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the expanded novella. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981. Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. For the TV adaptation, see Nightflyers (TV series). For the 1987 film adaptation, see Nightflyers (film).

Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin