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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Page 153
... edge . Shrimp made a regretful sound and Curly picked up Kog's unit note . " Huh ? " asked the neanderthal . " Oh , it's not over , " Shrimp said . “ That's just a first try . Now we all go again . " Crumpled notes landed on the box ...
... edge . Shrimp made a regretful sound and Curly picked up Kog's unit note . " Huh ? " asked the neanderthal . " Oh , it's not over , " Shrimp said . “ That's just a first try . Now we all go again . " Crumpled notes landed on the box ...
Page 157
... edge . " " I think I understand , " said Tel . " I can't explain the mathematics to you , but you can't explain the mathematics of your slowing truck to me . " " I guess not , " Tel said . Suddenly he looked up at the forest guard and ...
... edge . " " I think I understand , " said Tel . " I can't explain the mathematics to you , but you can't explain the mathematics of your slowing truck to me . " " I guess not , " Tel said . Suddenly he looked up at the forest guard and ...
Page 342
... edge . Jon and Alter were man - handled to its foot , and then up on the platform at the tank's rim . What happened next - it happened inside Jon's mind - was a marshalling of dispersed bits of information , of learning and fragments of ...
... edge . Jon and Alter were man - handled to its foot , and then up on the platform at the tank's rim . What happened next - it happened inside Jon's mind - was a marshalling of dispersed bits of information , of learning and fragments of ...
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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