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It is an easy leap to make, lest we forget that Nightflyers was originally a Locus Award winning novella published in 1980 by George R. R. Martin. },false)

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I loved it so much I still have the original paperback. But for those ardent fans who feel like the series will be yet another disaster like the 1987 film of the same name, worry not. document.querySelector("#adunit").addEventListener('click',function(){

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}); The book was adapted into a film in 1987, and a television adaptation by Syfy is set to premiere on December 2, 2018. Nightflyers is set in the year 2093 and follows a team of brave scientists who embark on a journey into space. The first five episodes will air Sunday, December 2, through Thursday, December 6, at 10 p.m. (9 p.m. Central). }

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They take … The ending of Syfy's 'Nightflyers' is open-ended, which makes a second season a tantalizing possibility.

Despite key differences from the novella, the series created by Jeff Buhler is pretty spectacular! In the film, the character of Melantha Jhirl was blatantly whitewashed - much like the cover designs for the original book. For those ardent fans who feel like the series will be yet another disaster like the 1987 film of the same name, worry not.

}); "[Mel] was the only [role] where we were very specific about race," he shared with the outlet. }); Luckily, all these years later, Buhler seems to be doing the character justice - the way they should have when both the book and the extremely cheesy film had come out.

Like we mentioned, the series is going to focus on a pretty near off future of our planet.

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I go through a lot of books and many of them end up being resold or given away.

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'Nightflyers' begins this weekend.

… You can still see many of my characters, and some of the basic tropes and plot points. "The idea was to bring the story a bit closer to our contemporary world," Buhler shared, as reported by ARS Technica. I loved the space sci-fi. Syfy's upcoming space adventure/psychological thriller, 'Nightflyers', is almost here and if there is one thing fans can be certain of, it's the twisted element of horror and gore underlying what seems to be a perfectly composed science fiction plot. eventAction: 'load'

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But his publisher back in the day didn't think having a black woman on the cover would help in book sales.

I have a very short list of books that I keep forever.

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} "It had to do with her spirit and her strength, and how incredibly fierce she is, not her skin color. And, alongside all of that, Buhler's adaptation sort of compensates for the biggest disaster in the 1987 film adaptation - the same disaster that had grown to be Martin's biggest regret about the film and his book, too. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('impressionViewable', function(event) {

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There's also an underlying horror within the group of experts traveling in the titular spaceship - specifically in the form of an axe-wielding murderer, called Rowan (Angus Sampson).