Before they can land, however, their ship comes under attack. The three of them find themselves on a ship with the Nachief heading for an unnamed planet, where he intends to kill all three of them. Lane Rawlings is a slave who learned a secret about her master, the Nachief of Frome, and made the mistake of sharing that secret with two other slaves. When Eric Flint and Guy Gordon included it in their collection of Schmitz’s stories, Telzey Amberdon in 2000, they changed the story’s title to “Blood of Nalakia.” It was the magazine’s final issue and the last science fiction magazine edited by Hugo Gernsback. “Vampirate” was first published in Science-Fiction Plus in December 1953. In 1966, he had four Nebula nominations for his short story “Balanced Ecology,” the Novelettes “Planet of Forgetting” and “Goblin Night,” and for the novella “Research Alpha,” co-written with A.E. Schmitz was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1962 for Best Short Fiction for his story “Lion Loose” and in 1967 for the novel The Witches of Karres. Schmitz was born on Octoand died on April 18, 1981.
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