 What is a Nilly?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1959. Sure I'm a Nilly, and I've died seven times, always in the blackness of the outer reaches, and I'm not alone, although there aren't very many of us, never were. "As I recall," Ellason said, "there was something about stunners." Being a Nilly is important, probably as important as running the ship, and I think it is this thought that keeps us satisfied, willing to be what we are. Janssen's case contained vegetable and flower seeds—thousands of them, according to the Captain's Bulletin, the ship's daily newsletter which went to all hands and passengers.
 A Nilly is a trained operative used by colony transport ships to keep the colonists focused on a common enemy.
 A Nilly is a trained operative used by colony transport ships to keep the colonists focused on a common enemy.  A Nilly is a person who works on the crew on an interstellar ship.  A Nilly is a black ops agent.  A Nilly is a person, who is able to come back from the dead, but like Lazarus, not like a zombie.