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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... once much bigger than it is today , " Geryn said . " Once man flew not just between island and mainland , island and island , but skirted the entire globe of the earth . Once man flew to the moon , even to the moving lights in the sky ...
... once much bigger than it is today , " Geryn said . " Once man flew not just between island and mainland , island and island , but skirted the entire globe of the earth . Once man flew to the moon , even to the moving lights in the sky ...
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... once , stepped on . But I fixed it later . It was a pretty neck- lace . I polished the shells myself . " " Oh , " Ptorn said , a little softly , a little gently . " What do you suppose all those lights are , way over there at the edge ...
... once , stepped on . But I fixed it later . It was a pretty neck- lace . I polished the shells myself . " " Oh , " Ptorn said , a little softly , a little gently . " What do you suppose all those lights are , way over there at the edge ...
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... Once I turned around , and they were whipping up into the air . I was scared so I went back to the warehouse . But I stopped once , at the fence Vol had pointed out . I had some chalk , and scrawled real big what he had told me . That ...
... Once I turned around , and they were whipping up into the air . I was scared so I went back to the warehouse . But I stopped once , at the fence Vol had pointed out . I had some chalk , and scrawled real big what he had told me . That ...
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