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 217
... guys all over the place . They'd told us this particu- lar capture was going to be easy as cutting a kharba melon . They'd told us there probably wouldn't be a shot fired . Well , I didn't want to end up like one of those gutted corpses ...
... guys all over the place . They'd told us this particu- lar capture was going to be easy as cutting a kharba melon . They'd told us there probably wouldn't be a shot fired . Well , I didn't want to end up like one of those gutted corpses ...
Page 298
... guys joking with it back in the mines . " " Oh ! Well , once upon a time there were three mali gangs . " " Spill on , " Jon said . guys " The people in these gangs are a funny bunch : lots of who were too messed up even to get into the ...
... guys joking with it back in the mines . " " Oh ! Well , once upon a time there were three mali gangs . " " Spill on , " Jon said . guys " The people in these gangs are a funny bunch : lots of who were too messed up even to get into the ...
Page 362
... guys told me his mess - hall place was just two tables away from mine . But I don't remember him . I knew one of the guys by sight that got killed , the heavy one . But I'd never worked with him or spoken with him . Afterwards , a lot of ...
... guys told me his mess - hall place was just two tables away from mine . But I don't remember him . I knew one of the guys by sight that got killed , the heavy one . But I'd never worked with him or spoken with him . Afterwards , a lot of ...
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