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Title: Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0-312-94332-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: December, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Martin's best writing
Comment: I picked this up after reading the three books completed so far in Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. I thought I couldn't go wrong with an author who had written those books so well. However, these stories were written many years ago, and I think it shows.
I found several of them kind of, well, cheesy. "Nightflyers" kept refering to who had "sexed" with who, for example. Some of them seemed like stories I would have liked a lot when I was 14, but now I could see plot twists telegraphed from miles away. I did like "Weekend in a War Zone" and "Song for Lya." I could see the endings coming on these also, but the ride was more enjoyable.
Rating: 5
Summary: 5 of the best George R.R. Martin Sci-Fi early Sci-Fi stories
Comment: Nightflyers: In the title story, nine people set off on the Nightflyer, a space trader owned and operated by Royd Eris, in search of the Volcryn, a mythical race of sentient beings traveling through space for more than eighteen thousand years. As they travel through space to the outer edges, they begin to realize something is wrong. Their captain shows up only as a hologram, and their only telepath begins to sense something wrong. One by one the passengers begin dying, and the survivors discover they are not alone on the ship. Now they must trust the captain they have never met face to face, and as the Volcryn come within range of the Nightflyer, they learn also that the massive, alien, quiet ship is not what was expected either.
Override: Imagine you make a decent living as a corpse handler on a pretty planet named Grotto. To you, working with the corpses is a job, not all that unpleasant, but others on Grotto call you and your kind "Meatminds" and want to do away with corpse labor. And then, you discover someone has an "override box", and they are able to take control of the corpses away from you. Miles away from town, without control of your corpses, will you survive?
Weekend In A War Zone: Welcome to Maneuver, Inc., where you can pay a great deal of money to sign up for some weekend war games. Only unlike a weekend of tennis, you might not come back alive, because these games are real.
And Seven Times Never Kill A Man: On the world of Corlos, the Children of Bakkalon reside within the City of Steel Angels. Outside the city are the forest folk called the Jaenshi, living quiet lives in harmony with planet and gathering around their clan's pyramid. The Steel Angels come out from their city and destroy the pyramids, hunting and killing the Jaenshi, calling them soulless animals. The trader neKrol has come to Corlos in his ship, the Lights of Jolostar, in an effort to save the Jaenshi. Is there room on this planet for more than one race?
Nor The Many-Colored Fires Of A Star Ring: All around the galaxy are the Star Rings, "gates" to different parts of the universe. Kerin and Jenny are at the Nowhere Ring, ready to try Jenny's theory of a self-sustaining ring using no nullspace engines.
A Song For Lya: Robb and Lya are summoned to the planet Shkea, where the
Terran planetary administrator has become concerned with the number of humans joining the Shkeen Cult of the Union. With their psi talents, they travel to the city to learn of the creatures called Greeshka and their role in the cult. It is the only religion of the Shkeen, and one of the Talented will fall victim to this cult of love.
Rating: 3
Summary: More good stuff from George
Comment: Tho most of this collection is recycled from earlier George R.R. Martin short-story packages, there R a few new stories -- "Nightflyers" is a very good, very vivid interstellar horror story, with a lot more going 4 it than just the mystery at its center -- good believable characters, involving happenings, & most of all the Volcryn, another haunting creation of George at his very best. "Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring" is a sequel to George's earlier story "The Second Kind of Loneliness," & is also outstanding. "Weekend in a War Zone" is average, nothing special. The other stories include his classic "Song for Lya" (which U should already have read), "Override," & a couple others. Worth it just 4 the stories U can't find elsewhere.
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Title: Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 1592220053 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Dying of the Light by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0671228617 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Armageddon Rag by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0671532537 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: January, 1985 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0671431854 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: A Song for Lya: And Other Stories by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 1930235119 Publisher: Babbage Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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