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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... caught . And killed . " " Huh ? " said Let . " Is that all ? ” " That's about it , " said Petra . " What do you mean ? " Let demanded . Last night's version had contained detail upon detail of the prisoners ' treatment , their efforts ...
... caught . And killed . " " Huh ? " said Let . " Is that all ? ” " That's about it , " said Petra . " What do you mean ? " Let demanded . Last night's version had contained detail upon detail of the prisoners ' treatment , their efforts ...
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... caught up on a breeze , then dropped again singeing , charring , at last to burst into fire . Follow , cried Petra . We follow , cried Jon and Arkor . Jon whirled and arrowed towards the marauder . His beak plunged among black feathers ...
... caught up on a breeze , then dropped again singeing , charring , at last to burst into fire . Follow , cried Petra . We follow , cried Jon and Arkor . Jon whirled and arrowed towards the marauder . His beak plunged among black feathers ...
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... caught another . They were making a chain of rocks across the area . " You and you- " ( neither one was Tel , but the order made him turn his head and almost miss a sack ) " -climb that rise back there and report on D - T platoon ...
... caught another . They were making a chain of rocks across the area . " You and you- " ( neither one was Tel , but the order made him turn his head and almost miss a sack ) " -climb that rise back there and report on D - T platoon ...
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