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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... hand came around the edge of the cabinet , for the handle . The hand was broad , with black hairs , and sported a brass ring set with an irregular shape of blue glass . As the door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a ...
... hand came around the edge of the cabinet , for the handle . The hand was broad , with black hairs , and sported a brass ring set with an irregular shape of blue glass . As the door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a ...
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... hands . " Now what do I do ? " he asked , swaying back and forth . Alter put her hand on his back to steady him . " Now straighten your right leg , and keep your arms fairly stiff . " He obeyed . " Now swing your right leg up and down ...
... hands . " Now what do I do ? " he asked , swaying back and forth . Alter put her hand on his back to steady him . " Now straighten your right leg , and keep your arms fairly stiff . " He obeyed . " Now swing your right leg up and down ...
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... hand as she gazed down the white sand . With the sudden change in gravity , Jon nearly dropped the papers , but Alter helped him catch them up . They looked again towards the city where : Smoke fell like silver scales through the shell ...
... hand as she gazed down the white sand . With the sudden change in gravity , Jon nearly dropped the papers , but Alter helped him catch them up . They looked again towards the city where : Smoke fell like silver scales through the shell ...
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