The Fall Of the Towers

by Delany, Samuel R

After his seventh novel Empire Star (1966), Samuel Delany began publishing short fiction professionally with “The Star Pit.” It appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, “Aye, and Gomorrah” and “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones,” won Nebula Awards as best SF short stories of, respectively, 1967 and 1969. Aye, and Gomorrah contains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to Nevèrÿon series. A native New Yorker, Delany teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In July of 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

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New York: Bantam Books, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. A Bantam Book 20309-6. Collects Out of the Dead City, The Towers of Toron, and City of a Thousand Suns. A near fine copy. ; Small octavo.
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New York: Ace Books, 1970. First printing. Near fine.. First edition thus, the first collected edition of three of Delany's earliest novels: CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS. 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers by Kelly Freas, cover price 95c, 22640. All edges tinted orange. 413, [1] pages. Minor edgewear,… Read more about this item
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Vintage, New York, 2004. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear. Come and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of… Read more about this item
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Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. First hardcover edition, Fine sans dust jacket as issued,. Boston: Gregg Press:, 1977. First hardcover edition, Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 413 pp.<br/>
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Ace, 1966. 1st printing. The Empire of Toromon was the last hope and refuge of mankind. Sealed off from the charred, radioactive wastlelands by the radiation barrier, the Empire survived to face new adversaries deadlier even than the Great Fire. Paperback. very good plus paperback, Kelly Freas cover.
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LONDON: SPHERE BOOKS. Reprint. UK Paperback. Small tear on the bottom edge of the cover spine. Moderate surface wear and flat creasing on covers. NB: Colour fading on the cover spine which makes the title and author's name indistinct. Tanned pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Science fiction. Collects the… Read more about this item
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