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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. top notch delaneyBy PIXIETop notch early Delaney. He really has a sense of foreahadowing, and the end of the story is a nice abstract SciFi piece all its own2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. This 'Chip' Has SailedBy W. B. GlassThis five-star review is for the youthful works, novel- length and shorter, of Samuel R. 'Chip' Delany, influenced by the poetry of Marilyn Hacker (both Delany's companion at the time and, sometimes, a character within his work), the prose of Theodore Sturgeon (an sf writer no longer woefully under-represented on Kindle), and Delany's own delight in the opportunities offered by the science fiction playground.(I'm not talking here of Delany's first novel, THE JEWELS OF APTOR, with whose three-star Kindle reviews I tend to agree.)I'm talking the stuff from when Delany sailed, soared, and sometimes swept up science fiction's best-of-the-year awards. I'm talking the trilogy THE CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS (available from as the DTB omnibus THE FALL OF THE TOWERS), the playfully-interlinked EMPIRE STAR and BABEL-17 (available from in a back-to-back "Double Book" DTB edition), THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION (Kindle, ), the stories in DRIFTGLASS (all, and more, included within the DTB collection AYE, AND GOMORRAH)(available from ), and the novel ( DTB) -- most of which are not available on Kindle -- all which convey both joy and intelligence.(Kindle mainly carries Doctor Professor Delany's later works, which I can sometimes appreciate and seldom enjoy, and which tend toward the mimetic, the semiotic, and the didactically transgressive.)CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME comes from that bright period when Delany, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison (here in America) were re-examining and reforging the language of science fiction. Delany even wrote an essay, "About 5,750 Words", wherein he word-by-word deconstructs the shape and process of a science fiction sentence. His premise: each new word ideally modifies, refocuses, or sharpens a reader's perception of the previous word. He illustrates this with the following short sentence (and associated perceptions): "The" (a kinda blobbish gray start) "red" (the blob now has color) "sun" (the color focuses to a small circular spot above us) "was" (not much new there) "low" (a time of day, a mood), "the" (after the comma's pause, a new gray-blobbish beginning) "blue" (which acquires color) "high". "The red sun was low, the blue high": suddenly we're on another planet, with two suns and doubled shadows!With this awareness of Delany's word-by-word precision, you can understand my horror that Kindle's previous offering of CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME presented the opening phrase of the opening sentence of the book's Prologue as "The green beetles' wings..." instead of "The green of beetles' wings...".This CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME restores Delany's text (which he himself would tweak and revise for the one-volume edition of the trilogy), as well as artist Jack Gaughan's cover painting (instead of the unrelated Emshwiller magazine-cover-image the previous offering presented).As an introduction (if you've not yet had one) to 'Chip' Delany's work, as a wafting memory of 1960's head space (whether you were there or not), and as some good, mind-stretching sf adventure reading, this CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME is well worth your $0.99.Recommended.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. strange flight of fancyBy David BrockertThis story is quite the strange flight of fancy. They use slide rules and computers in the far future where life has devolved in ways and evolved in other ways after the nuclear holocaust to come. The stranger part are the aliens that have come to save world. The country of the story is really an island that has become a monarchy. The country is bounded by a radiation field that prevents them form gong beyond to explore the rest of the world. They know there are other people over there, just not who or how developed they are. The economy is going to pot, like ours is because of overproduction and limited man hours for that same overproduction, so there is a need to siphon off excess men and energy, hence the war to be. Oddly, there is a side plot of the King's brother being kidnapped and nurtured, but it does not go anywhere. It just happens and the story goes on without him getting back home or developing. I liked the idea, but I will have to look for the subsequent story to find out how he fares. Anyway, the aliens help the people to save the world and, hopefully, the war will actually not be so bad.

SAMUEL R. DELANY considers Captives of the Flame to be the first of a trilogy dealing with the same epoch and characters. It is, however, his second published novel, his first being The Jewels of Aptor, which has received considerable acclaim.Asked for comment on his literary ambitions, he preferred to quote one of the characters from one of his works:ldquo;I wanted to wield together a prose luminous as twenty sets of headlights flung down a night road; I wanted my words tinged with the green of mercury vapor street lamps seen through a shaling of oak leaves in the park past midnight. I needed phrases that would break open like thunder, or leave a brush as gentle as willow boughs passed in a dark roomhellip;. The finest writing is always the finest delineation of surfaces.rdquo;

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