| Captives of the Flame | |
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Cover of first edition paperback |
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| Author(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]