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Captives of the Flame 
Cover of first edition paperbackAuthor(s) Samuel R. Delany Cover artist Jack Gaughan Country United States Language English Series The Fall of the Towers Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Ace Books Publication date 1963 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 147 pp ISBN N/A OCLC Number 1162251 Followed by The Towers of Toron Captives of the Flame is a 1963 science fiction 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].
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
- Bibliography
- Barbour, Douglas (1979). Worlds Out Of Worlds: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany. Frome, Somerset, UK: Bran's Head Books Ltd.. ISBN 0-905220-3-7.
- 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.
Externbal links
- Captives of the Flame publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:- Novels by Samuel Delany
- 1963 novels
- 1960s science fiction novels
- American science fiction novels
- 1960s science fiction novel stubs
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