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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... corner . It works out that no matter how you do it , if all the coins in the square are touching , two coins will ... corner , say a deci - unit , the chances that it would hit both corner coins would go up , and that's your randomness ...
... corner . It works out that no matter how you do it , if all the coins in the square are touching , two coins will ... corner , say a deci - unit , the chances that it would hit both corner coins would go up , and that's your randomness ...
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... corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner . " Shoot it into the gap there , " he said . She put her forefinger on the silver disc , was still , then snapped her finger ...
... corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner . " Shoot it into the gap there , " he said . She put her forefinger on the silver disc , was still , then snapped her finger ...
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... corner Jon stopped . With a hand on her shoulder he halted Alter . She blinked , questioning him in the shadows . His answer was the rising of his chin , the turn of his head denoting gathered attention . She turned to face the same ...
... corner Jon stopped . With a hand on her shoulder he halted Alter . She blinked , questioning him in the shadows . His answer was the rising of his chin , the turn of his head denoting gathered attention . She turned to face the same ...
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Alter asked aquariums Arkor barrier began blinked breath camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon and Alter Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra Ptorn pulled Quorl Rara remember rock Rolth screamed shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought told Tomar Toromon Toron towers TOWERS OF TORON transit-ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice Vol Nonik walked wall What's whispered window woman