Captives of the Flame
Captives of the Flame is a 1963 science fantasy novel by Samuel R. Delany, and is the first novel in the "Fall of the Towers" trilogy. The novel was originally published as Ace Double F-199 together with The Psionic Menace by Keith Woodcott (a pseudonym of John Brunner).[1] It was later rewritten as Out of the Dead City and published by Signet Books in 1968.[2]
 Cover of first edition paperback | |
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Jack Gaughan |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Fall of the Towers |
| Genre | Science fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 147 pp |
| OCLC | 1162251 |
| Followed by | The Towers of Toron |
The stories of the Fall of the Towers trilogy were originally set in the same post-holocaust Earth as Delany's earlier The Jewels of Aptor; linking references, however, were removed in later revised editions.[3]
References
- Notes
- Barbour 1979, p. 161.
- Tuck 1974, p. 136.
- Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 316.
- Bibliography
- Barbour, Douglas (1979). Worlds Out Of Words: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany. Frome, Somerset, UK: Bran's Head Books Ltd. ISBN 0-905220-13-7.
- Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2 ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links
- Captives of the Flame title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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