The Fall of the TowersCome 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 aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim. |
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Page 129
... Devil's Pot than you can shake a stick at , fishermen's sons , farmers ' sons , blacksmiths ' sons , sons ' sons . And all of their mothers were weavers or water carriers , or they raised chickens . I must have talked to all of them at ...
... Devil's Pot than you can shake a stick at , fishermen's sons , farmers ' sons , blacksmiths ' sons , sons ' sons . And all of their mothers were weavers or water carriers , or they raised chickens . I must have talked to all of them at ...
Page 297
... Devil's Pot , aren't you ? ” Kino's eyes dropped and sprung from his own rags again to Jon's clothes and then to his face . " Going back that way ? " Quick , suspicious nod . " I'll walk part of the way with you , " Jon told him . They ...
... Devil's Pot , aren't you ? ” Kino's eyes dropped and sprung from his own rags again to Jon's clothes and then to his face . " Going back that way ? " Quick , suspicious nod . " I'll walk part of the way with you , " Jon told him . They ...
Page 299
... Pot one week , all scarred down the side of her face , and that was it . Some people swear she can read minds . " Kino rubbed his dirty hand down his left cheek . " Three gangs , see ? And one city block in the Devil's Pot that both ...
... Pot one week , all scarred down the side of her face , and that was it . Some people swear she can read minds . " Kino rubbed his dirty hand down his left cheek . " Three gangs , see ? And one city block in the Devil's Pot that both ...
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