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 96
... rock . There were carvings on the stone . The sun was high . The carvings represented creatures that may have been hu- man , but were deformed , distorted , some nearly unrecog- nizable . When he looked up , he saw that the priest had ...
... rock . There were carvings on the stone . The sun was high . The carvings represented creatures that may have been hu- man , but were deformed , distorted , some nearly unrecog- nizable . When he looked up , he saw that the priest had ...
Page 211
... rock spilled to ledges below . Fifty feet down , still a hundred feet above the water , was the largest table of rock . The sun burned white across the whole lithic expanse , and the small temple at the edge cast a sharp shadow . " The ...
... rock spilled to ledges below . Fifty feet down , still a hundred feet above the water , was the largest table of rock . The sun burned white across the whole lithic expanse , and the small temple at the edge cast a sharp shadow . " The ...
Page 217
... rock bag fall , so I took a breath and figured - really sort of calm when you think how much sweating I was doing ... rocks running after the footsteps of the guy in front of me . " " That was me , " Illu grunted . " Running ' after ...
... rock bag fall , so I took a breath and figured - really sort of calm when you think how much sweating I was doing ... rocks running after the footsteps of the guy in front of me . " " That was me , " Illu grunted . " Running ' after ...
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