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 339
... malis around here , and night - time is mali time . " He held the pole braced in his toes and picked carefully at distorted smiles and gaping frowns , the short knife blade tic - tac - ticcing . " We want to get a good start , " said ...
... malis around here , and night - time is mali time . " He held the pole braced in his toes and picked carefully at distorted smiles and gaping frowns , the short knife blade tic - tac - ticcing . " We want to get a good start , " said ...
Page 340
... malis ? " Raye , younger , darker , also wore a disorderly soldier's uniform . " Could be , " Lyn shrugged . " We're not malis , " Alter declared . " Did the town station you out here to keep malis from moving into the tents ? " " Could ...
... malis ? " Raye , younger , darker , also wore a disorderly soldier's uniform . " Could be , " Lyn shrugged . " We're not malis , " Alter declared . " Did the town station you out here to keep malis from moving into the tents ? " " Could ...
Page 355
... Malis . " He saw Alter's shoulder stiffen before him as she climbed down . " Malis , " repeated their guide , “ malcontents . Only these malis are malcontent with most other malis as well as the rest of this chaotic world . " They ...
... Malis . " He saw Alter's shoulder stiffen before him as she climbed down . " Malis , " repeated their guide , “ malcontents . Only these malis are malcontent with most other malis as well as the rest of this chaotic world . " They ...
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