Agatha Marij-Black- Psipsych, some class 3 telepath powers, Thale’s companion.Thale Lasamer- Young telepath, very strong class 1 powers.Chartered the Nightflyer ship for researching the Volcryn. Karoly d’Branin- Scholar from the Academy of Human Knowledge on Avalon.Melantha Jhirl- Culutral Xenologist, studies alien cultures to try and understand them.Royd Eris- Captain of the Nightlfyer ship.They look as though they belong together.False Long Midnight- the Ice Dragon consumes.Alys, Lindran, Christopheris plot again.To make it easier for you to pick up where you left off after a break, I broke the story into acts and you can jump to the sections from this list here. I have held back on adding all of my notes, but they are there for talking points if you want, or feel free to skip them.

Per usual, I have my on notes interjected along the way. What is Nightflyers all about? What’s in a name? What does George have to say? Nightflyers is one of the longer of Martinworld stories I typically transcribe for rereads, but we’re gonna do it anyway, even if it requires a few breaks.Topics include: GRRM speaking on his fantastic use of ice.

The Ice Dragon, a very important one as it shows another ice dragon as the Volcryn represents.

To help orient readers here with the frame of mind GRRM was in while writing this story, he was also writing and publishing other stories such as: He had been working on this story for a few years before it’s publish dates as his first date he put on the expanded version is November 1978.Ī gulf of space or a gulf of water, it’s all just furniture in Martinworld.

The science-fiction/horror story won the Locus Award and was nominated for a Hugo. Martin published a short novel called “Nightflyers,” an expanded version of which was released the following year.

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