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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... , and the children crawl from under the tent flaps again and scurry back to the walk - ways . Dolphins nose the corners of the aquarium wagons and the calliope plays faster . " How do you like it , son ? " 230 The Fall of the Towers.
... , and the children crawl from under the tent flaps again and scurry back to the walk - ways . Dolphins nose the corners of the aquarium wagons and the calliope plays faster . " How do you like it , son ? " 230 The Fall of the Towers.
Page 231
... calliope to training wild sharks . ” He paused and looked up at figures spinning in the aerial spot . " Come to think of it , I never was anything where I had to stay up in the air too long . " Applause swept the dark tent once more ...
... calliope to training wild sharks . ” He paused and looked up at figures spinning in the aerial spot . " Come to think of it , I never was anything where I had to stay up in the air too long . " Applause swept the dark tent once more ...
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... calliope music . She had come back to pick up her notebook with the odd radical formulae she'd never thought she'd look at again . But then I never thought I would want to look at anything again , she reflected . She went to the desk ...
... calliope music . She had come back to pick up her notebook with the odd radical formulae she'd never thought she'd look at again . But then I never thought I would want to look at anything again , she reflected . She went to the desk ...
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