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Nightflyers
''Nightflyers'' is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. R. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981. A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the expanded novella. In 1987, the short novella was adapted into a film by the same name. A 2018 television adaptation of the extended novella was developed; television presentation began on December 2, 2018, on the SyFy Channel. Setting ''Nightflyers'' is set in the distant future. In the distant past, the humans of the Federated Nations of Earth discovered the stardrive. The Federated Nations of Earth eventually morphed into the Federal Empire. For a thousand years, humanity waged war with an alien species called the Hrangan, which caused the collapse of the Federal Empire. Humanity is interested in acquiring the advanced interstellar technology of the ''volcryn'', an enigmatic alien species. Plot summary A nine-member team of Academy sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightflyers (TV Series)
''Nightflyers'' is an American horror science fiction television series on Syfy that premiered in the United States on December 2, 2018, and on Netflix, internationally on February 1, 2019. The series is based on the novella and series of short stories of the same name by George R. R. Martin. The first season consisted of ten episodes, which concluded on December 13, 2018. Syfy canceled the series in February 2019. Premise In 2093, a team of scientists embark on a journey into space aboard an advanced space ship called the ''Nightflyer;'' in order to make first contact with alien life-forms. When terrifyingly violent events begin to occur aboard, the team begins to question each other, but come to the realization that there must be something else on board the ''Nightflyer'' with them. It is up to the crew to save the ship themselves, to complete their mission. Cast Main * Eoin Macken as Karl d’Branin, an astrophysicist and leader of the ''Nightflyer'' expedition * David Aja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jaffe (producer)
Robert Jaffe (born in New York City) is an American film producer, actor, and screenwriter. He is known for his work on ''Motel Hell'' (1980), ''Nightflyers'' (1987), ''Nightflyers'' (2018), and more. He also appeared in the films ''Fuzz'' (1972), ''The Magnificent Seven Ride!'' (1972), and '' Creature'' (1985). Career As an actor he played Alan Parry in ''Fuzz'' (1972), Bob Allen in ''The Magnificent Seven Ride!'' (1972), Jon Fennel in '' Creature'' (1985), and Miles in ''Maid to Order'' (1987). He also had small roles in '' The Mechanic'' (1972) and ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'' (1992). He produced ''Motel Hell'' (1980), ''Nightflyers'' (1987), ''Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird'' (2013), and the television series of ''Nightflyers'' (2018). As a screenwriter, his credits include ''Demon Seed'' (1977) and ''Motel Hell'' (1980), ''Scarab'' (1980), and ''Nightflyers'' (1987). He and his father, Herb Jaffe, bought the rights to ''Nightflyers'' from George R.R. Martin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightflyers (film)
''Nightflyers'' is a 1987 American science fiction horror film based on ''Nightflyers'', a 1980 novella by George R. R. Martin. Plot The film is about a group of scientists who begin a space voyage to find a mysterious alien being, and in the process are victimized by the ship's malevolent computer. Cast * Catherine Mary Stewart as Miranda Dorlac * Michael Praed as Royd Eris * John Standing as Michael D'Brannin * Lisa Blount as Audrey * Glenn Withrow as Keelor * James Avery as Darryl * Annabel Brooks as Eliza * Michael Des Barres as Jon Winderman Production Development The film is based on a novella that appears in George R. R. Martin's 1985 short story collection. Originally written in 1980, the 23,000-word novella was published by ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact''. In 1981, at the request of his editor at the time, James Frenkel, Martin expanded the story into a 30,000-word piece, which was published by Dell Publishing, together with Vernor Vinge's ''True Names'', as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Mary Stewart
Catherine Mary Stewart (; born 22 April 1959) is a Canadian actress. Her film roles include '' The Apple'', ''The Last Starfighter'' and ''Weekend at Bernie's''. She was also the original Kayla Brady in '' Days of our Lives''. Early life Stewart was born on 22 April 1959, in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Mary (Stewart) and John Ralph Nursall. Her parents taught at the University of Alberta, her mother a physiology teaching assistant and her father a biology professor. Stewart attended Strathcona Composite High School. She first took jazz dance lessons, and moved to London after high school to study dance and general performing arts, and where she passed the audition for her first movie, ''The Apple''. Career In 1980, Stewart landed a role in '' The Apple'', a musical science fiction cult film. During the production of ''The Apple'', the director Menahem Golan took issue with her original name Mary Nursall and insisted she change it, which she did using her mother's maide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Praed
Michael Praed ( ; born 1 April 1960), birth name Michael David Prince, is a British actor and narrator, probably best remembered for his role as Robin of Loxley in the British television series ''Robin of Sherwood'', which attained cult status worldwide in the 1980s. Career Praed was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and educated at Eastbourne College, after which he became an actor. He discovered that the British actors' union Equity already had a "Michael Prince" among its members, so he chose a surname out of a telephone book to use as a stage name. The name Praed is a Cornish word meaning "meadow".E-mail communication with Celeste Moore, webmaster oMichael Praed's official website michael-praed.com; 19 May 2007. Praed is remembered for his roles as Prince Michael of Moldavia on the American primetime soap ''Dynasty'' and as Phileas Fogg in ''The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne'' (2000). He is also known in the British Isles for his stage work in musicals and drama and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Award For Best Novella
The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novella award is available for works of fiction of between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The Hugo Award for Best Novella has been awarded annually since 1968. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novellas for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954. During the 63 nomination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way Of Cross And Dragon
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" is a science fiction short story by American writer George R. R. Martin. It involves a far-future priest of the One True Interstellar Catholic Church of Earth and the Thousand Worlds (with similarities to the Roman Catholic hierarchy) investigating a sect that reveres Judas Iscariot. The story deals with the nature and limitations of religious faith. The story originally appeared in the June 1979 issue of '' Omni''. In 1980, it won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story as well as the Locus Award for best short story. It is set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including '' Dying of the Light'', '' Sandkings'', ''Nightflyers'', ''A Song for Lya'' and the stories collected in ''Tuf Voyaging''. Plot summary Damien Har Veris — a priest skilled in resolving heretical disputes efficiently, although now spiritually exhausted — is sent by his alien archbishop as Knight Inquisitor to deal with a particular s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song For Lya (novella)
''A Song For Lya'' is a science fiction novella by American writer George R.R. Martin. It was published in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' magazine in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1975. It was also nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novella and Jupiter Award for Best Novella, and took second place in the ''Locus'' Poll. Plot The story deals with two telepaths named Robb and Lyanna ("Lya" for short), who visit the planet Shkea by an invitation of the planetary administrator, who is disconcerted by the culture of the native alien population, the Shkeen, and how it affects humans. The Shkeen are an ancient culture, but their progress has stalled at a stone age level for thousands of years. Their religion is centered on a jelly-like parasite called the Greeshka. At middle age, they allow themselves to be infected by it, and ten years later visit a cave where there is a large mass of Greeshka and allow themselves to be consumed by it. The administrator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandkings (novelette)
"Sandkings" is a novelette by American writer George R. R. Martin, first published in the August 1979 issue of '' Omni''. In 1980, it won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Locus Award for best novelette, and was nominated for the Balrog Award in short fiction. It is the only one of Martin's stories to date to have won both the Hugo and the Nebula. It was included in the short story collection of the same name, published by Timescape Books in December 1981. Martin was inspired by a college friend at Northwestern University who had a piranha tank and would sometimes throw goldfish into it between horror film screenings. He had intended it to be part of a series, with Wo & Shade operating shops on many different planets, but the idea did not pan out. "Sandkings" is set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including '' Dying of the Light'', '' Nightflyers'', ''A Song for Lya'', "The Way of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dying Of The Light (1977 Novel)
''Dying of the Light'' is a science fiction novel by American writer George R. R. Martin, published in 1977 in literature, 1977 by Simon & Schuster. Martin's original title was ''After the Festival''; its title was changed before its first hardcover publication. The novel was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Hugo Award for Best Novel, Best Novel in 1978 in literature, 1978, and the British Fantasy Award in 1979. Martin's first novel, ''Dying of the Light'' is set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of his other works, including ''Sandkings (novelette), Sandkings'', ''Nightflyers'', ''A Song for Lya (novella), A Song for Lya'', "The Way of Cross and Dragon" and the stories collected in ''Tuf Voyaging''. The novel's title is drawn from Dylan Thomas' 1947 poem "Do not go gentle into that good night". Plot The novel takes place on the planet of Worlorn, a world which is dying. It is a rogue planet whose erratic course is taking it irreversibly away from i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuf Voyaging
''Tuf Voyaging'' is a 1986 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer George R. R. Martin, first published in hardcover by Baen Books. It is a darkly comic meditation on environmentalism and absolute power. This novel is a collection of related short fiction works, originally published over several years, beginning with 1976's "A Beast for Norn". The book includes a prologue and Martin's S'uthlam storyline (published in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact''), adding them as bridging material, and gathering them with other Tuf stories into one episodic novel. The novel concerns the (mis)adventures of Haviland Tuf, an exceptionally tall, bald, very pale, overweight, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise solitary space trader. Tuf inadvertently becomes the master of the ''Ark'', an ancient, "seedship" – a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities – after a deal with several venal and cutthroat traders goes awry. Tuf travels the gala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiun Award
The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Nihon SF Taikai, Japan Science Fiction Convention. It is the oldest SF award in Japan, being given since the 9th Japan Science Fiction Convention in 1970. "Seiun", the Japanese word for "nebula", was taken from the first professional science fiction magazine in Japan, which had a short run in 1954. The award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It is similar to the Hugo Award, which is presented by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, in that all of the members of the presenting convention are eligible to participate in the selection process, though it is not a one-on-one comparison as the Hugo Awards are open to works from anywhere in any language, while the Seiun is implicitly limited to works released in Japan and written in or translated to Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
