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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... Rolth , for three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals ; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal , some the moral animal . Well , I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed ...
... Rolth , for three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals ; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal , some the moral animal . Well , I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed ...
Page 368
... Rolth said , " We're working . " Jon and Alter looked puzzled , but Clea , instead of answering , turned and walked to Rolth's side . With questioning still in their eyes , they looked to the guide . " Clea's trying to finish up her ...
... Rolth said , " We're working . " Jon and Alter looked puzzled , but Clea , instead of answering , turned and walked to Rolth's side . With questioning still in their eyes , they looked to the guide . " Clea's trying to finish up her ...
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... Rolth looked back . " I guess you could say we knew each other , " Clea said . " He'd read my articles , I'd seen ... Rolth said . One wall of the room was clotted with dials , loudspeakers , tape reels . A few key - punch consoles sat ...
... Rolth looked back . " I guess you could say we knew each other , " Clea said . " He'd read my articles , I'd seen ... Rolth said . One wall of the room was clotted with dials , loudspeakers , tape reels . A few key - punch consoles sat ...
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