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 192
... moved off behind the columns to the left and Jon started to the right . Keeping in the shadows of the sea- scaped tapestries he worked his way along the hall towards the empty throne . Then a voice came , hollow , from across the floor ...
... moved off behind the columns to the left and Jon started to the right . Keeping in the shadows of the sea- scaped tapestries he worked his way along the hall towards the empty throne . Then a voice came , hollow , from across the floor ...
Page 350
... moved over the floor below , fingers of shadow jutting from each . " Petra , look ! " She joined him at the railing . " What are they doing , Petra ? Who are they ? " She put her hand on his shoulder , and he felt her press down ...
... moved over the floor below , fingers of shadow jutting from each . " Petra , look ! " She joined him at the railing . " What are they doing , Petra ? Who are they ? " She put her hand on his shoulder , and he felt her press down ...
Page 395
... moved by themselves . But they were mov- ing . Alter pressed back against him ; but Jon put his free hand around her shoulder and started down the dunes . Light struck through their bodies . They moved like ambient glass . " Have they ...
... moved by themselves . But they were mov- ing . Alter pressed back against him ; but Jon put his free hand around her shoulder and started down the dunes . Light struck through their bodies . They moved like ambient glass . " Have they ...
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