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 80
... half of fish was finally removed from the streets and disposed of . But five and a half tons had made its way through the city . The Communications Engineer also added that while they'd been talking , a memorandum had come through that ...
... half of fish was finally removed from the streets and disposed of . But five and a half tons had made its way through the city . The Communications Engineer also added that while they'd been talking , a memorandum had come through that ...
Page 144
... half extended , looking at the ... the man in the chair . He wanted to close his eyes and rub them , but what he saw was not going to go away . Half of Catham's face was transparent . Part of his skull had been replaced with a plastic ...
... half extended , looking at the ... the man in the chair . He wanted to close his eyes and rub them , but what he saw was not going to go away . Half of Catham's face was transparent . Part of his skull had been replaced with a plastic ...
Page 152
... half a dozen men called out a perfunctory , " Hello . " Green - eyed and freckled Shrimp came over . " Hey , any of ... half a unit . That's ' cause only half my bet came in . " He placed a half - unit piece in Kog's hand . " Now . You ...
... half a dozen men called out a perfunctory , " Hello . " Green - eyed and freckled Shrimp came over . " Hey , any of ... half a unit . That's ' cause only half my bet came in . " He placed a half - unit piece in Kog's hand . " Now . You ...
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