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 46
... prison guards , choked on the food , and could not communicate his outrage . Later , at the horizon , was the glow of something paler than sunrise , deadlier than the sea , a flickering gauze behind the hills . Near him were the ...
... prison guards , choked on the food , and could not communicate his outrage . Later , at the horizon , was the glow of something paler than sunrise , deadlier than the sea , a flickering gauze behind the hills . Near him were the ...
Page 160
... prison uniform . He is conscious of the six freckles on his right cheek and the ten on his left . There is an appendectomy scar across the right side of his belly , and he thinks of that now , briefly seeing the white walls of the ...
... prison uniform . He is conscious of the six freckles on his right cheek and the ten on his left . There is an appendectomy scar across the right side of his belly , and he thinks of that now , briefly seeing the white walls of the ...
Page 291
... prison ( the sentence was life , not five years ) in which anger and humili- ation and hate for the guards , for the faulty mining equip- ment , for hot hours underground with rocks scraping his hands , for the sound of tall ferns ...
... prison ( the sentence was life , not five years ) in which anger and humili- ation and hate for the guards , for the faulty mining equip- ment , for hot hours underground with rocks scraping his hands , for the sound of tall ferns ...
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