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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Samuel R. Delany. another crack in the wall , another spot of light getting in , I'll claw my hands off trying to break through and to hell with what you are . Because while you're there , I'm still a prison- er . " Then the light in the ...
Samuel R. Delany. another crack in the wall , another spot of light getting in , I'll claw my hands off trying to break through and to hell with what you are . Because while you're there , I'm still a prison- er . " Then the light in the ...
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... light of the crescent moon . He was growing , adding facets ; he let the light seep into his trans- parent body , decreasing his polarization cross - frequencies . The light was beautiful , too beautiful - dangerous ! He began to tingle ...
... light of the crescent moon . He was growing , adding facets ; he let the light seep into his trans- parent body , decreasing his polarization cross - frequencies . The light was beautiful , too beautiful - dangerous ! He began to tingle ...
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... light - sensitive virus who saw from the star - wide waves of novas to the micro - micron scattering of nutrinos , a ... light , the glare of a mercury light which they had stopped under briefly to talk to City of a Thousand Suns 271.
... light - sensitive virus who saw from the star - wide waves of novas to the micro - micron scattering of nutrinos , a ... light , the glare of a mercury light which they had stopped under briefly to talk to City of a Thousand Suns 271.
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