Re: Captives of the Flame

Two points:

Out of the Dead City was the ORIGINAL title -- Ace retitled it the more
dramatic "Captives of the Flame".

From the discussion in 'The Motion of Light in Water', 'Captives of the
Flame' was severely cut to fit the Ace page length and Delany felt that he
had to butcher the book in doing so. I just bet Chip would want a better
edition up there!

--Zvi


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Greg Weeks <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Joseph Zitt wrote:
>
> > Am I right in recalling that "Captives of the Flame" was retitled "Out of
> > the Dead City" for later publication? If so, it's curious that the eBook
> > would revert to the old title. And I wonder if it incorporates the
> revisions
> > that Delany made (as noted in the "Notes on Revisions" in the
> single-volume
> > version of "The Fall of the Towers" that I just checked).
>
> I strongly suspect it's from the original Ace edition. The Ace edition did
> not have it's copyright renewed. The changes in the later editions under
> the new title were published after renewals were no longer required.
>
> When I looked into this a few years ago Chip wanted Project Gutenberg to
> do the newer version. We never did get all of the paper work done though.
> I've got copies of both the Ace and the newer 3-in-1 volume. I've never
> tried to look to find out what changed though.
>
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> Greg Weeks
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