You also get a feel of the interpersonal conflicts of the crew members throughout the story, which gives you a good idea of their characters as well as their personal struggles. I had to get down to the bottom of the mystery. Not just because of the short length of the book, but because the suspense and tension to find out who is behind the chaos was just too much to leave it alone. With only 165 pages in total, I was able to finish the book within two days. The book is short, aka a novella, and easy to read. Considering the time it was written, the theoretical outlines of a dystopian future are intriguing and adding the horror aspect to the plot, you have yourself a glimpse of the possible future. I’m not a huge fan of science fiction, but I was really impressed with the writing and the concept. It’s a race to find out who is behind the killings, and stop a murderer who can be anywhere, do anything, at any time. Not long, accidents leadings to the crews’ deaths start occurring, and there are no answers. They travel together on the ship called the Nightflyer, with a mysterious captain that no one has seen before, except on a hologram. Nine B-class academics set off into space to find the volcryn, a mythic race, who they believe will help them save humanity. All opinions and views are my own.īook Review: Nightflyers by George R.R. You can watch the Netflix Nightflyers trailer here.ĭISCLAIMER: This review could contain possible spoilers based on my opinions. I watched the TV series a week after I read the book, so with it still fresh in mind, I was able to pick up on the differences all too easily.

While the plot setting was close to the original, there was a larger cast introduced on the show, and it was a little confusing to keep up with the changes in the flow of the story. I want to say it was pretty close to the book, but unfortunately not. In 2018, Netflix aired the TV show based on the book.

Nightflyers was originally published in 1985, then followed a film adaptation in 1987 (which received low ratings and referred to as a ‘disaster’). One interesting fact about his early writing was that he started writing science fiction short stories, which put him on the map, as those were the years science fiction movies, like Star Wars, started rising in popularity, but not enough popularity to pay the bills just yet. Which could only mean one thing: there are lots of novels to explore by this author, going back many years.

With a bit of research, I found out that he actually started writing in the 1970s already, and not the 1990s as I had thought. Martin had written anything besides the ‘ A Song of Fire and Ice‘ collection. Up until the day that HB brought this book home from one of his business trips, I had no idea that George R.R.

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