title: Nightflyers: The Illustrated Edition
author:  George R. R. Martin 
description: <b>George R. R. Martin</b> is the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire<i>A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, </i>and<i> A Dance with Dragons</i>as well as <i>Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven</i> (with Lisa Tuttle),<i> </i>and<i> Dreamsongs Volumes I </i>and<i> II</i>. He is also the creator of <i>The Lands of Ice and Fire,</i> a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and <i>The World of Ice &amp; Fire,</i> with Elio M. Garca, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. As a writer-producer, he has worked on <i>The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, </i>and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<br /> <br /> <b>David Palumbo</b> is a Philadelphia-based painter known primarily for fantasy and horror genre illustration. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Palumbo began his career showing in galleries in 2003, but his primary focus has long been centered on illustration. His images have won numerous honors and been featured in exhibits from New York to Paris.
zlib_text: THE NIGHT FACE
  
  originally published as
  
  Let the Spacemen Beware.t'
  
  Copyright (c), 1963 by Ace Books, Inc.
  
  **INTRODUCTION**
  
  Copyright (c), 1978 by Poul Anderson
  
  WORD
  
  Copyright (c), 1978 by Sandra Miesel
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
  any means, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without
  permission in writing from the publisher.
  
  All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  An ACE Book
  
  Second Ace Edition: February 1978
  
  Cover art by Michael Whelan
  
  Printed in U.S.A.
  
  **INTRODUCTION**
  
  At first this was a novelette called "A Twelvemonth and a Day." I revised and
  expanded it for book publication, whereupon the then editor stuck it with the
  ridiculous title Let the Spacemen Beware.t My thanks to Jim Baen, now in
  charge, for recognizing that readers have more intelligence than they were
  once given credit for having. In return, I admit that h