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 123
... blinked . He looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , rising on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw ...
... blinked . He looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , rising on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw ...
Page 193
... blinked and drew back . Jon let his feelers hang still . Now the head , onyx black , raised once more and again the three eyes blinked . The lizard hissed ; needle teeth rimmed a spongy gum . It hissed again , and glowing sand swirled ...
... blinked and drew back . Jon let his feelers hang still . Now the head , onyx black , raised once more and again the three eyes blinked . The lizard hissed ; needle teeth rimmed a spongy gum . It hissed again , and glowing sand swirled ...
Page 203
... blinked . " You guys are new ? " " That's right , " said Ptorn from inside . " Then come on , " the neanderthal said . " I have to show you something . " Ptorn joined Lug and Tel as they followed the other man out . " My name is Illu ...
... blinked . " You guys are new ? " " That's right , " said Ptorn from inside . " Then come on , " the neanderthal said . " I have to show you something . " Ptorn joined Lug and Tel as they followed the other man out . " My name is Illu ...
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