The Black Flame (novel)

The Black Flame (novel)

Infobox Book |
name = The Black Flame
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = first edition of "The Black Flame"
author = Stanley G. Weinbaum
illustrator = A.J. Donnell
cover_artist = A.J. Donnell
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Fantasy Press
release_date = 1948
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 240 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by =
followed_by =

The Black Flame is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. It starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. The book is divided into two novels - Dawn of the Flame and The Black Flame. They concern a brother and sister who have become immortal. In Dawn of the Flame the sister is a Joan-of-Arc-type, leading the battle against the mutated of mankind. By the time of The Black Flame, she is jaded and finds that being an immortal can be boring.

The Black Flame was heavily edited upon its initial publication. Sam Moskowitz supervised a new publication reconstructed from the original carbons. The new book was republished under the same title by Tachyon Publications in 1995 and restores 18,000 words that had been previously cut.

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*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=235 | date=1998


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