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 121
... Petra wanted to know . ) Indistinct , yet nearly the size of the ship , it hovered almost three breast strokes from them , glowing beneath the surface . ( I'll have a look , said Petra . ) The Second Fisherman suddenly dived forward and ...
... Petra wanted to know . ) Indistinct , yet nearly the size of the ship , it hovered almost three breast strokes from them , glowing beneath the surface . ( I'll have a look , said Petra . ) The Second Fisherman suddenly dived forward and ...
Page 196
... Petra , where do you fly ... ? Even before he had completed his questions , Petra's voice sang , I fly over the green flames where the copper burns , now to the yellow where sodium flames ... From further away a third voice joined them ...
... Petra , where do you fly ... ? Even before he had completed his questions , Petra's voice sang , I fly over the green flames where the copper burns , now to the yellow where sodium flames ... From further away a third voice joined them ...
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... Petra's guest . Among the others was the grotesque imposing figure of Rolth Catham , the historian . The King paused ... Petra both received mental nudges at the same time . " It's Arkor , " Petra whispered , but Jon had already begun to ...
... Petra's guest . Among the others was the grotesque imposing figure of Rolth Catham , the historian . The King paused ... Petra both received mental nudges at the same time . " It's Arkor , " Petra whispered , but Jon had already begun to ...
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