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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... shadow from the trees brushing over her face , over the triple scar . Streaks of sun speared the yellow clouds and pried apart the billowing rifts . Shafts of yellow sank into the lusher forests of Toromon nearer the shore . The light ...
... shadow from the trees brushing over her face , over the triple scar . Streaks of sun speared the yellow clouds and pried apart the billowing rifts . Shafts of yellow sank into the lusher forests of Toromon nearer the shore . The light ...
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... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to detect the texture of the weave . " Do your eyes ever get accustomed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half blind ...
... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to detect the texture of the weave . " Do your eyes ever get accustomed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half blind ...
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... shadow on her stomach . Her lips were opened and her bright teeth were faintly blued by the shadow of her upper lip . She was beautiful with shadows , the long violet ones that fell over the waterfront streets where he had walked with ...
... shadow on her stomach . Her lips were opened and her bright teeth were faintly blued by the shadow of her upper lip . She was beautiful with shadows , the long violet ones that fell over the waterfront streets where he had walked with ...
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