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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... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before .... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And the ...
... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before .... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And the ...
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... night he slept badly . Morning pried his eyes open with blades of light from the window . It was early . He had been up only a minute when there was a knock on his door . It opened , and Arkor directed the dwarfed form of the prince ...
... night he slept badly . Morning pried his eyes open with blades of light from the window . It was early . He had been up only a minute when there was a knock on his door . It opened , and Arkor directed the dwarfed form of the prince ...
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... night . As blackness washed the sky and stars stuck diamond- tipped pins into evening , Jon and Petra lingered at the rail . " Somewhere out there is the war . In which direction ? " she asked . " Who knows ? " Jon motioned towards the ...
... night . As blackness washed the sky and stars stuck diamond- tipped pins into evening , Jon and Petra lingered at the rail . " Somewhere out there is the war . In which direction ? " she asked . " Who knows ? " Jon motioned towards the ...
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