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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... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything , " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking . " Chargill smiled . " May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything , " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking . " Chargill smiled . " May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
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... enemy nest to save us . ' 99 " That's a pretty good one . Maybe he figured that if some- body didn't do it , we'd ... enemy encampments . There will be no wandering off base . Until the truce is actually consummated , the enemy's de ...
... enemy nest to save us . ' 99 " That's a pretty good one . Maybe he figured that if some- body didn't do it , we'd ... enemy encampments . There will be no wandering off base . Until the truce is actually consummated , the enemy's de ...
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... enemy . Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy , greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them , always hidden behind their own terror . " They were ...
... enemy . Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy , greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them , always hidden behind their own terror . " They were ...
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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