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 138
... mainland , or pulling their fish in over the edge of their rowboat . When the council decided that these parties should be given , it knew what it was doing . " She ran her fingers across the mother - of - pearl inlay on the desk . " We ...
... mainland , or pulling their fish in over the edge of their rowboat . When the council decided that these parties should be given , it knew what it was doing . " She ran her fingers across the mother - of - pearl inlay on the desk . " We ...
Page 146
... mainland opposite the islands , that of a strip of beach , followed by meadow lands , followed by forests , followed by an unin- habitable rocky crescent that more or less cuts off this fifteen hundred square miles from the rest of the ...
... mainland opposite the islands , that of a strip of beach , followed by meadow lands , followed by forests , followed by an unin- habitable rocky crescent that more or less cuts off this fifteen hundred square miles from the rest of the ...
Page 299
... mainland , rich kids from the middle of the city , a lot from the edge , and more from in between : you people don't want to know it , but we're growing all over this dead land . Oh , yeah , and girls . " Kino laughed . " All them nice ...
... mainland , rich kids from the middle of the city , a lot from the edge , and more from in between : you people don't want to know it , but we're growing all over this dead land . Oh , yeah , and girls . " Kino laughed . " All them nice ...
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