The Towers of Toron

The Towers of Toron  

Cover of first edition paperback
Author(s) Samuel R. Delany
Cover artist Ed Emshwiller
Country United States
Language English
Series The Fall of the Towers
Genre(s) Science Fiction
Publisher Ace Books
Publication date 1964
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 140 pp
ISBN N/A
OCLC Number 2183859
Preceded by Captives of the Flame
Followed by City of a Thousand Suns

The Towers of Toron is a 1964 science fiction 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, linking references however were removed in later revised editions.[3]

References

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

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