Project Gutenberg 2013-01-24 Public domain in the USA. 108 Delany, Samuel R. 1942 Delaney, Samuel R. Delany, Chip Captives of the Flame Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Captives of the Flame" by Samuel R. Delany is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story is set in a dystopian future where the world is on the brink of war, and it follows Jon Koshar, a young man who has recently escaped from a penal camp, as he grapples with his sense of identity and freedom. The novel explores themes of power, societal decay, and the personal struggles of its characters against the backdrop of looming conflict. At the start of the book, the reader is introduced to Jon Koshar as he stumbles through an unfamiliar desert landscape, disoriented after his escape. As he begins to regain his senses, he recognizes remnants of a city he knows and is haunted by memories of the penal mines and his desire for freedom. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a larger world teetering on the edge of war, where characters like the forest guard Quorl and the ambitious merchant Cithon have their own stories intertwined with Jon's. The opening chapter sets up a complex narrative in which individual struggles reflect wider societal issues, hinting at the intertwined fates of all characters amid the encroaching crisis. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41905/41905-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 311367 311376 2024-09-17T14:10:39.947507 2023-09-18T08:59:42.568198 text/html text/html 311145 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 241122 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 248134 2024-09-17T14:10:44.539444 application/epub+zip 252466 2024-09-17T14:10:40.640591 application/epub+zip 186133 2024-09-17T14:10:40.294457 application/epub+zip 357540 2024-09-17T14:10:47.678430 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339253 2024-09-17T14:10:44.201453 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273035 2022-09-19T07:29:15.094100 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 297197 297102 2024-09-17T14:10:39.150491 2023-09-18T08:59:41.935195 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 296958 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 113111 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 296955 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113098 2013-01-23T18:55:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19961 2024-09-17T14:10:47.822409 application/rdf+xml 29833 2024-09-17T14:10:40.384446 image/jpeg 4519 2024-09-17T14:10:40.342446 image/jpeg 241522 2024-09-17T14:10:39.978481 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog