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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... Quorl ? " he said . " Quorl ! " he barked . Behind branches that had been cut down and replanted to form a shapeless shelter , something turned under leaves . The lean - to had no real form from the outside , but was limited like the ...
... Quorl ? " he said . " Quorl ! " he barked . Behind branches that had been cut down and replanted to form a shapeless shelter , something turned under leaves . The lean - to had no real form from the outside , but was limited like the ...
Page 90
... Quorl got the trap door opened and his hand inside . The protracted squeak suddenly turned into a scream . Then there was silence . Quorl removed a furry , weasel - type animal and handed it to the boy . The pelt was feather soft ...
... Quorl got the trap door opened and his hand inside . The protracted squeak suddenly turned into a scream . Then there was silence . Quorl removed a furry , weasel - type animal and handed it to the boy . The pelt was feather soft ...
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... Quorl went over and picked him up . This is the best dream , the boy thought , from that dark place he had retreated to behind the pain , because Quorl is here . The hands were lifting him now , he was held close , warm , somehow safe ...
... Quorl went over and picked him up . This is the best dream , the boy thought , from that dark place he had retreated to behind the pain , because Quorl is here . The hands were lifting him now , he was held close , warm , somehow safe ...
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