Download or read book Captives of the Flame written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Amazing Sci-Fi Classics. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 room.... The finest writing is always the finest delineation of surfaces.