The Towers of Toron

1964 novel by Samuel R. Delany

The Towers of Toron is a 1964 science fantasy novel by Samuel R. Delany, and is the second novel in the "Fall of the Towers" trilogy.^[1] The novel was originally published as Ace Double F-261, together with The Lunar Eye by Robert Moore Williams.^[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; however, linking references were removed in later revised editions.^[3]

References

1. Tuck 1974, p. 136.
2. Barbour 1979, p. 164.
3. Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 316.

Sources

• Barbour, Douglas (1979). Worlds Out Of Worlds: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany. Frome, Somerset, UK: Bran's Head Books Ltd. ISBN 0-905220-13-7.
• 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

• The Towers of Toron title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database