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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... Tloto , " Quorl said . " Go away . " Only Tloto came forward instead . Perhaps it had been born of human parents , but to call it human now ... It was bone naked , hairless , shell white . It had no eyes , no ears , only a lipless mouth ...
... Tloto , " Quorl said . " Go away . " Only Tloto came forward instead . Perhaps it had been born of human parents , but to call it human now ... It was bone naked , hairless , shell white . It had no eyes , no ears , only a lipless mouth ...
Page 94
... Tloto coming towards his tree . A sudden urge to sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until ...
... Tloto coming towards his tree . A sudden urge to sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until ...
Page 95
... Tloto came into the circle of firelight he gave it to him . Quorl gave a shrug of frustration and flung a pebble at the retreating shadow . " He is useless , " Quorl said . " Don't waste your food on him . Oh , well , I suppose we're ...
... Tloto came into the circle of firelight he gave it to him . Quorl gave a shrug of frustration and flung a pebble at the retreating shadow . " He is useless , " Quorl said . " Don't waste your food on him . Oh , well , I suppose we're ...
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