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Captives of the Flame
Samuel R. Delany
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Set in the 35th Century, the survivors of a nuclear war live on the coastline and an island in a kingdom ruled by a royal family in disrepair. A young victim -- the son of a wealthy merchant -- of their wrath becomes a working-class hero as he fights to get back his good name, aided by a disaffected member of the royal family. This was later rewritten as Out of The Dead City by Delany as part of the Towers Trilogy, an early masterpiece, imo
Set in the 35th Century, the survivors of a nuclear war live on the coastline and an island in a kingdom ruled by a royal family in disrepair. A young victim -- the son of a wealthy merchant -- of their wrath becomes a working-class hero as he fights to get back his good name, aided by a disaffected member of the royal family. This was later rewritten as Out of The Dead City by Delany as part of the Towers Trilogy, an early masterpiece, imo
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Jon walked down the hall.
Behind the door to one room that he did not enter, the red-headed Duchess of Petra was standing by the window of her apartment, gazing over the roofs of the city, the great houses of the wealthy merchants and manufacturers, over the hive-like buildings which housed the city's doctors, clerks, secretaries, and storekeepers, down to the reeking clapboard and stone alleys of the Devil's Pot.
The early sun lay flame in her hair and whitened her pale face. She pushed the window open a bit, and the breeze waved her blue robe as she absently fingered a smoky crystal set in a silver chain around her neck.
Jon continued down the hall.
Three doors away, the old queen lay on the heap of over-stuffed mattresses, nestled in the center of an immense four-poster bed. Her white hair was coiled in two buns on either side of her head, her mouth was slightly open and a faint breath hissed across . . . Read More
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Out of the Dead City is a very early novel by Delany; it was his second published book, and was the first volume of his Fall of the Towers trilogy. (And before anyone asks, there's no connection to Tolkien.) It's a standard science fiction adventure plot-wise, but is very well written by the standar
Captives of the Flame was the second novel by SFWA grand master Samuel R. Delany. It is a hard book to describe. I have thought about it for days, and still struggle to do it justice. At least I can say it was for me an enjoyable experience, and a cut above average 1960s sci fi.
Captives of the Flame
It has been about five hundred years since the Great Fire wiped out the old civilizations. On the island of Toron, however, enough humans and records survived to begin again. A settlement became a village became a town became a city. And when the people of Toron regained the ability to sail the sea,
Delaney's second novel. He had a ways to go. It's imaginative, well-plotted, and filled with good dialog and engaging characters. But the expository prose can be clumsy, and he had not yet received the memo on the use of the word "suddenly."
On the future Earth of an indeterminate time, mankind has been reduced to living in a small coastal area clustered about the island nation of Toramon. On one side, they are bounded by ocean and on the other a radiation barrier. The government of Toramon is preparing to make war against a mysterious