Only Melantha Jhirl, a genetically enhanced outcast with greater strength, stamina, and intelligence than other humans, has a chance of solving the mystery-and stopping the malevolent being that's wiping out her shipmates. Captain Eris claims to know nothing about the elusive intruder, and when someone, or something, begins killing off the expedition's members, he's unable-or unwilling-to stem the bloody tide. something dangerous, volatile, and alien. The team's telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Yet that's not the only reason the ship seems haunted. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice-or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost. , a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, now an original series on SYFY.įeaturing fifteen original full-color illustrations, this is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills ofĪnd, of course, the inimitable vision of George R.
While Martin is on an exclusive contract with HBO and can't contribute writing (he will be credited as an executive producer), this TV series is intended to follow his original novella closer than the movie.A gorgeous illustrated edition of a classic novella from the #1 bestselling author of Jaffe is now a producer on the TV show-which will be Syfy's most expensive original series of all time-with Netflix acting as a co-producer. The movie, directed by Robert Collector, came out in 1987. Martin is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of 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.
Jaffe wrote the screenplay for a film version of Nightflyers, which he also helped produce. Martin sold the Nightflyers film and TV rights to writer and producer Robert Jaffe in 1984. It's been a long, strange path for the novella to reach television. But the crew members on their ship, the Nightflyer, start to mysteriously die one by one.
Martin's novella, which the author has described as "Psycho in space."Īnd that's certainly a fitting description for Nightflyers, which is based on Martin's 1980 sci-fi horror book that follows eight scientists and a telepath on a mission to contact alien life in the far reaches of the solar system. On Thursday night at Comic-Con, SYFY network shared the first full trailer for Nightflyers, the new series based on George R.R.
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