Captives of the Flame

{{Short description|1963 novel by Samuel Delany}}

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{{infobox book |

| name = Captives of the Flame

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| image = Delany Captives-of-the-Flame.jpg

| caption = Cover of first edition paperback

| author = Samuel R. Delany

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| cover_artist = Jack Gaughan

| country = United States

| language = English

| series = The Fall of the Towers

| genre = Science fantasy novel

| publisher = Ace Books

| release_date = 1963

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 147 pp

| oclc = 1162251

| preceded_by =

| followed_by = The Towers of Toron

}}

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).Barbour 1979, p. 161. It was later rewritten as Out of the Dead City and published by Signet Books in 1968.Tuck 1974, p. 136.

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.Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 316.