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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... door slammed . A moment later , the light , and Jon Koshar's hands and head , went out . When Jon stepped forward again , he looked at the pantry , at the doors , the cabinets . The familiarity hurt . There was a door into the main ...
... door slammed . A moment later , the light , and Jon Koshar's hands and head , went out . When Jon stepped forward again , he looked at the pantry , at the doors , the cabinets . The familiarity hurt . There was a door into the main ...
Page 63
... door , he locked Prince Let securely in his . Then he went rapidly on . Tel ran till he got to the corner , rounded it , and checked the street sign . It was correct . So he went to a doorway and sat down to wait . At the same time ...
... door , he locked Prince Let securely in his . Then he went rapidly on . Tel ran till he got to the corner , rounded it , and checked the street sign . It was correct . So he went to a doorway and sat down to wait . At the same time ...
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... door . " Let found the proper key , put it in the lock , and the door swung back . " All right , you kids , " said the guard who was standing on the other side of the door ( he wore a size seventeen uni- form ) , " you come along with ...
... door . " Let found the proper key , put it in the lock , and the door swung back . " All right , you kids , " said the guard who was standing on the other side of the door ( he wore a size seventeen uni- form ) , " you come along with ...
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