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 103
... Toron . There's an awful lot of equipment here that's more or less mine if I can figure out how to use it . And I've got a friend here who knows more in that line that I gave him credit for . I've overheard some closed circuit ...
... Toron . There's an awful lot of equipment here that's more or less mine if I can figure out how to use it . And I've got a friend here who knows more in that line that I gave him credit for . I've overheard some closed circuit ...
Page 141
... Toron thrust over the edge of the sea . The windows of the Grand Ballroom in the royal palace of Toron rose coffin - shaped two stories towards the ceiling . As the panes lightened , the musicians blew windy music from their tuned sea ...
... Toron thrust over the edge of the sea . The windows of the Grand Ballroom in the royal palace of Toron rose coffin - shaped two stories towards the ceiling . As the panes lightened , the musicians blew windy music from their tuned sea ...
Page 147
... Toron is this . No empire that we know of before the Great Fire ever survived for over a hundred years in complete isolation from any disruptive force . Nor did any empire , country , or even tribe that was in isolation ever develop ...
... Toron is this . No empire that we know of before the Great Fire ever survived for over a hundred years in complete isolation from any disruptive force . Nor did any empire , country , or even tribe that was in isolation ever develop ...
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