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 299
... Jeof . You know those apes don't quite have it all in the head , and they know it ; so when they get into a gang they make up for it by being mean . And Jeof ran one of the meanest . Third was Larta's gang . She was one of them giants ...
... Jeof . You know those apes don't quite have it all in the head , and they know it ; so when they get into a gang they make up for it by being mean . And Jeof ran one of the meanest . Third was Larta's gang . She was one of them giants ...
Page 300
... Jeof didn't like this . He thought Vol was chickening out of the whole business , and he wanted his return match . Then Jeof's gang got smashed by another gang , and he somehow managed to blame that on Vol , too . He swore he'd get even ...
... Jeof didn't like this . He thought Vol was chickening out of the whole business , and he wanted his return match . Then Jeof's gang got smashed by another gang , and he somehow managed to blame that on Vol , too . He swore he'd get even ...
Page 348
... Jeof stood alone on the cobbles . The paper , stuck to the ground , ripped in the breeze and flapped up the alley . Once more he clenched his fists and let Kino's words pick their way through his mind . " I'm proud , " he mumbled , and ...
... Jeof stood alone on the cobbles . The paper , stuck to the ground , ripped in the breeze and flapped up the alley . Once more he clenched his fists and let Kino's words pick their way through his mind . " I'm proud , " he mumbled , and ...
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