Form: Novelette
Year: 1969
Publication history:
- 1969 : Galaxy February 1969 (m) ,
- 1969 : Nightwings (pb) , Avon, 190 pp., V2303
- 1970 : Nightwings (hc) , Walker
- 1972 : Nightwings (hc) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1974 : Science Fiction Special 10 (pb) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1974 : Nightwings (pb) , Sphere, 192 pp., ISBN 0-7221-7834-4
- 1976 : Nightwings (pb) , Avon, 190 pp., 28068
- 1978 : Nightwings (pb) , Sphere, 192 pp., 7825-5
- 1979 : Nightwings (pb) , Avon, 190 pp., ISBN 0-380-41467-8
- 1981 : A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (hc) , Harper & Row
- 1981 : A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (The Man in the Maze/Nightwings/Downward to the Earth) (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 497 pp., 5726
- 1983 : Nightwings (pb) , Avon, 190 pp., ISBN 0-380-41467-8
- 1987 : Nightwings (pb) , Futura Orbit (UK), ISBN 0708882358
- 1987 : Nightwings (pb) , Avon, 190 pp.
- 1999 : Nightwings (ol) , Peanut Press
- 2000 : Nightwings (ol) , Fictionwise
- 2000 : Nightwings (ol) , Bookface
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
- 2001 : Nightwings (tpb) , iBooks, 218 pp., ISBN 0743474465, 4474-4
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Comments:
This sequel to "Nightwings" and "Among the Rememberers" (Part 3 of the novel) was nominated for Nebula Award for best novella, 1969.
Finding himself again Guildless, Tomis leaves Perris, this time accompanied by the treacherous Olmayne, former Rememberer and murderer of her husand. They are bound for the holy city of Jorslem, and join the Guild of Pilgrims, wearing masks and taking on certain religious duties (Olmayne reluctantly and not very sincerely). Along the way, they meet a Surgeon in a village dying from a mysterious crystallization disease which is inevitably fatal. They do their best to comfort the unfortunates and travel on. Once they arrive in Jorslem, they apply for Redemption, a process whereby aging humans may regain their youth if they are found worthy. Tomis meets his old companion Avluela the Flier, who tells him of a great new destiny awaiting him after he is Renewed. This brings the story of Third Cycle Earth to a marvellous and satisfying close.
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