Captives of the Flame

1963 novel by Samuel Delany

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]

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

1. Barbour 1979, p. 161.
2. Tuck 1974, p. 136.
3. 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
• Captives of the Flame public domain audiobook at LibriVox