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 14
... laughed . " You sell to those families of the island who still insist on the doubtful superiority of your imported delicacies . Did you know , my friend , I am superior in every way to you ? I feed more people , so what I produce is ...
... laughed . " You sell to those families of the island who still insist on the doubtful superiority of your imported delicacies . Did you know , my friend , I am superior in every way to you ? I feed more people , so what I produce is ...
Page 95
... laughed . Quorl looked puzzled . The boy laughed again . Then Quorl laughed too . " You will learn . You will learn at last . " Then the giant became serious . " You know , that is the first histosentient sound I've heard you make since ...
... laughed . Quorl looked puzzled . The boy laughed again . Then Quorl laughed too . " You will learn . You will learn at last . " Then the giant became serious . " You know , that is the first histosentient sound I've heard you make since ...
Page 297
... laughed shortly . shortly . " ' Cause I knew it was going to happen . I knew other people were gonna start writing it too , start thinking it , wondering about it . And I thought that was the funniest damned thing in Toromon . Like you ...
... laughed shortly . shortly . " ' Cause I knew it was going to happen . I knew other people were gonna start writing it too , start thinking it , wondering about it . And I thought that was the funniest damned thing in Toromon . Like you ...
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