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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... closed the book . " You see ? " he said . " That's why I was afraid when I saw the dead city . That's why ... " He stopped . " You're not listening , " he said , and put the book back on the shelf . Down the hallway fifty feet , two ...
... closed the book . " You see ? " he said . " That's why I was afraid when I saw the dead city . That's why ... " He stopped . " You're not listening , " he said , and put the book back on the shelf . Down the hallway fifty feet , two ...
Page 26
... closed it again , and rolled over on to the pillow . " Tell that to my cousin the Duchess of Petra . She was dragged all the way from her island estate to come to this thing . The only people who are getting out of it are my mother and ...
... closed it again , and rolled over on to the pillow . " Tell that to my cousin the Duchess of Petra . She was dragged all the way from her island estate to come to this thing . The only people who are getting out of it are my mother and ...
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... closed his eyes . A log the thick- ness of his body lay across his left leg . Once he tried to push it away but only bruised his palm against the bark , and at last went unconscious with the effort . When he woke up , the pain was very ...
... closed his eyes . A log the thick- ness of his body lay across his left leg . Once he tried to push it away but only bruised his palm against the bark , and at last went unconscious with the effort . When he woke up , the pain was very ...
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