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This is a space mission to find a known but unknown alien race called the Volcryn. They are known on paper and mouth to mouth folklore only. No one in present memory has ever seen one or it’s starships. The Volcryn are only superstition and legends. Some ancient races think they may have been or are still God or Gods. The whole team is put into place to search for, and find these aliens and make first contact. The interaction between the crew is interesting, but the interaction with the crew and the captain of the Nightflyers is fascinating and bizarre. The captain is a very strange and arrogant person. The 5 women, 4 men crews jobs, background and personality traits seem to be lacking due to the fact no one knew each other before this mission. They are learning and making it up as they go along. There is however some major problems on this ship, someone or something is killing the crew. The paranoia, fear and anger builds within the crew. There are some great twists and turns. This is a fast and good read, I enjoyed it.


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Nightflyers The Illustrated Edition George R R Martin Books Reviews

I'll read anything with George R R name on it! He is simply my favorite author. That being said, these short stories were good, but left me wanting more. In any case, he's a fantastic author, and I highly recommend him.
While the plot is provocative, the characters are two dimensional, but the plot is original and is a mixture of scifi and horror.
This was a fast read, the pace was ok. it just didn't have any wow for me.
Not at all what I was expecting, but very good nonetheless. It kept me guessing all the way throughout. I even stayed up until I only had an hour until it was time to get up for work reading.
I don't know enough SF history to say where this one sits in the cannon. But from what I have read elsewhere, everyone says that the Vinge story is the first imagining of a virtually embodied cyberspace, as seen not long thereafter in books written by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, and later Tad Williams (among others). It's an important idea, and a tip of the hat for setting the stage, but I struggled with the anachronistic view of technology that Vinge used to describe how the "Other Plane" would work. I'll probably read it again, though, because it's not really a fair criticism, particularly because he was trying to do something extremely difficult to do in the late seventies situate a computationally interconnected world in a near-future that no one could have possibly yet understood.

Most SF authors from this era that I have read save themselves from the pitfalls of True Names by setting their stories so far in the future that they don't have to deal with bridging the short gap between modern and near-future technologies. Martin's story works this way. In contrast to Vinge's hard science story, Martin uses mysticism as a major device. One of the things I love about his stories is the way he situates magic as part of the fabric of the universe. It never feels out of place to me, perhaps because in the worlds he imagines magic never really does anyone any good. I suppose you could say he's a postmodern fantasist, and I've always enjoyed that about him. The one problem I had with Nightflyers was the amount of character development that Martin tried to cram into such a short novella. I found myself constantly flipping back to the page where he introduced the entire cast of characters in one massive dump of details. It felt like he just wanted to get us up to speed on who these people were so we could move forward with the story, but the names and faces are so unfamiliar that it was just too hard to differentiate them without more space and backstory between the introductions. Even still, the novella stuck with me and it was worth the read. But if you're just getting into old Martin sci-fi, and you're not interested in Vinge, you might want to check out Tuf Voyaging.

In short, I'm not fanatical about the two stories, but I enjoyed them, and they added to my understanding of how science fiction has grown over the years.
I was familiar with Martin's work because of the HBO series based on his acclaimed fantasy saga 'A Song of Ice and Fire' so I knew that there would be twists and turns. However, these aren't what you'd expect. Written in a more direct and simpler style than ASOIAF, 'Nightflyers' isn't packed with vivid descriptions of the dark entities haunting our characters. And that's good because otherwise, it would spoil the surprise. That being said, fans of cosmic horror and mystery will enjoy this book and the madness experiences by each character as they come to a realization that (like in many Lovecraftian tales) is too much for them to bear.
The story plays out like a haunted house in space. While not being as long as his other stories, Martin have us multifaceted characters that we can like and dislike at times.
This is also a cautionary tale where we are reminded of humanity's inner demons, and how sometimes it is not aliens we should be wary of.
George R. R. Martin had this idea that science fiction should have its horror classics. First off, science fiction does have its classic horror representatives. Remember Frankenstein? But moreover, any genre can support horror. Think of the great horror stories in classic literature - Turn of the Screw, for one. The horror initiates in the personalities of the characters. So, in addition to having a good, strong plot you have to have well developed characters. This isn't the case here. The characters act inappropriately (engaging in light banter after horrific events, for example) and their dialogue is unconvincing. One of the main characters (d'Branin,the brain), included the phrase "my friend" at least once in every sentence he spoke - kind of maddening after a while. So all in all, it wasn't very effective in getting any synergy between the two genres.
This is a space mission to find a known but unknown alien race called the Volcryn. They are known on paper and mouth to mouth folklore only. No one in present memory has ever seen one or it’s starships. The Volcryn are only superstition and legends. Some ancient races think they may have been or are still God or Gods. The whole team is put into place to search for, and find these aliens and make first contact. The interaction between the crew is interesting, but the interaction with the crew and the captain of the Nightflyers is fascinating and bizarre. The captain is a very strange and arrogant person. The 5 women, 4 men crews jobs, background and personality traits seem to be lacking due to the fact no one knew each other before this mission. They are learning and making it up as they go along. There is however some major problems on this ship, someone or something is killing the crew. The paranoia, fear and anger builds within the crew. There are some great twists and turns. This is a fast and good read, I enjoyed it.