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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... remember how I described the prison to you ? What would you do if you were king and those prisoners were under your rule , with their rotten food , the rats , their fourteen hours of labor a day in the mines ... " “ Well , I don't know ...
... remember how I described the prison to you ? What would you do if you were king and those prisoners were under your rule , with their rotten food , the rats , their fourteen hours of labor a day in the mines ... " “ Well , I don't know ...
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... remember I heard a rock bag fall , so I took a breath and figured - really sort of calm when you think how much sweating I was doing - Well , they've finally broken into the fortress , and I guess I can expect to be dead in just about ...
... remember I heard a rock bag fall , so I took a breath and figured - really sort of calm when you think how much sweating I was doing - Well , they've finally broken into the fortress , and I guess I can expect to be dead in just about ...
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... remember him . I knew one of the guys by sight that got killed , the heavy one . But I'd never worked with him or spoken with him . Afterwards , a lot of guys said they had known something was up , but I sure didn't . And I think the ...
... remember him . I knew one of the guys by sight that got killed , the heavy one . But I'd never worked with him or spoken with him . Afterwards , a lot of guys said they had known something was up , but I sure didn't . And I think the ...
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