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 86
... fell forward out of his chair , knocking the control stick to the left . He clutched his stomach as the plane banked . In the observation pill , the observer was thrown from his chair and the microphone fell from his hand . The co ...
... fell forward out of his chair , knocking the control stick to the left . He clutched his stomach as the plane banked . In the observation pill , the observer was thrown from his chair and the microphone fell from his hand . The co ...
Page 109
... fell through the wind- shield and slipped across Tomar's face . He pulled up his goggles and sighed . Active combat . What the hell would they be combating ? The disorder , the disorganization was beginning to strike him as farcical ...
... fell through the wind- shield and slipped across Tomar's face . He pulled up his goggles and sighed . Active combat . What the hell would they be combating ? The disorder , the disorganization was beginning to strike him as farcical ...
Page 251
... fell down , laughing hysterically . There was a lot of running around , and more laughing , and some crying . Tel saw Lug coming out of the barracks . " What is it ? " the neanderthal called . " Huh ? What's the matter ? " " What do you ...
... fell down , laughing hysterically . There was a lot of running around , and more laughing , and some crying . Tel saw Lug coming out of the barracks . " What is it ? " the neanderthal called . " Huh ? What's the matter ? " " What do you ...
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