Nightflyers: The Illustrated Edition

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Nightflyers is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1980, 1981 by George R. R. Martin

Text illustrations copyright © 2018 by David Palumbo

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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From Binary Star 5 (Dell, 1981). A shorter version of this story originally appeared in Analog, April 1980, copyright © 1980 by the Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Published as part of Dreamsongs: Volume I (Bantam, 2007).

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Martin, George R. R., author.

Title: Nightflyers / George R. R. Martin.

Description: Illustrated edition. | New York : Bantam, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018005083 | ISBN 9780525619680 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525619697 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Space ships—Fiction. | Murder—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Horror fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3563.A7239 N54 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005083

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Cover design: David G. Stevenson

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