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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... frowned ; then that frown broke into an ex- pression more frantic , desperate , as he searched for the ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand . The ...
... frowned ; then that frown broke into an ex- pression more frantic , desperate , as he searched for the ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand . The ...
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... frowned . " For a hand - painted picture , " said Rara , “ it's very cheap . Say , half a unit ? " " It's pretty , " said the woman , then caught the frown on her husband's face . She dropped her eyes and shook Out of the Dead City 31.
... frowned . " For a hand - painted picture , " said Rara , “ it's very cheap . Say , half a unit ? " " It's pretty , " said the woman , then caught the frown on her husband's face . She dropped her eyes and shook Out of the Dead City 31.
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... frown deepened into his face . He turned right , took five steps , and stopped when a clump of leafless trees appeared before him . He frowned again and walked in the other direction . Five 222 The Fall of the Towers.
... frown deepened into his face . He turned right , took five steps , and stopped when a clump of leafless trees appeared before him . He frowned again and walked in the other direction . Five 222 The Fall of the Towers.
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