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Nightflyers

George R. R. Martin

First published April 1980
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Thousand Worlds

Synopsis

A team of academics seeking to study an ancient alien ship passing through the galaxy charter a mysterious ship with a mysterious captain, and mysterious deaths occur.

Notes

According to the copyright page of ''Binary Star No. 5'', "Nightflyers" first appeared in ''Analog'' magazine in a slightly different form.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1980 Analog Award Best Novella/Novelette Winner
1981 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1981 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Winner

Publications (45)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1980 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1980 Condé Nast MAGAZINE 12
February 1981 Binary Star No. 5 Dell Anthology 11
February 1981 Binary Star No. 5 Dell Anthology 12
May 1981 The 1981 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 129
May 1981 The 1981 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 129
July 1981 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 Timescape / Pocket Books Anthology 143
August 1981 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Edition E. P. Dutton Anthology 54
August 1981 The 1981 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 119
October 1981 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 Gollancz Anthology 143
October 1983 Songs the Dead Men Sing Dark Harvest Collection 195
November 1985 Songs the Dead Men Sing Gollancz Collection 131
December 1985 Nightflyers Bluejay Books Collection 1
1986 Songs the Dead Men Sing Sphere Collection 124
February 1987 Nightflyers Tor Collection 1
December 1987 13 Short Horror Novels Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 187
1988 Nightflyers Tor Collection 1
September 1998 The Reel Stuff DAW Books Anthology 288
September 2003 GRRM: A RRetrospective Subterranean Press Collection 499
September 2003 GRRM: A RRetrospective Subterranean Press Collection
March 2004 Cyberfilms ibooks Anthology 267
2006 Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective Gollancz Collection 433
September 2006 Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective Gollancz / Orion Collection 433
October 2007 Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective Gollancz / Orion Collection 433
October 2007 Dreamsongs: Volume I Bantam Books Collection
October 2007 Dreamsongs: Selections from Volumes I and II Random House Audio Collection |499
November 2007 Dreamsongs: Volume I Bantam Spectra Collection 533
November 2007 Selections from Dreamsongs 2: Stories of Fantasy, Horror/Sci-Fi, and a Man Called Tuf: Unabridged Selections Random House Audio Collection |499
March 2008 Dreamsongs: I Gollancz Collection 510
June 2008 The Reel Stuff DAW Books Anthology 270
September 2008 Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective: Book One Gollancz / Orion Collection
October 2012 Dreamsongs: Volume I Bantam Books Collection 533
October 2012 The Complete Dreamsongs Bantam Books Collection
December 2012 Starter Pack: 4-Book Bundle Bantam Books Omnibus |25
March 2018 Nightflyers & Other Stories Tor Collection
March 2018 Nightflyers Bantam Books Chapbook
May 2018 Nightflyers: The Illustrated Edition Bantam Books Chapbook
May 2018 Nightflyers HarperVoyager Chapbook
May 2018 Nightflyers and Other Stories Harper Voyager (UK) Collection 1
May 2018 Nightflyers and Other Stories Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |100
May 2018 Nightflyers HarperVoyager Chapbook
June 2018 Nightflyers & Other Stories Tor Collection 1
August 2018 Nightflyers Bantam Books Chapbook
January 2019 Nightflyers HarperVoyager Chapbook
January 2019 Nightflyers and Other Stories Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
February 2024 A Song of Ice and Fire Series & More MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |7.533