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 165
... shook his head . " You have to work so hard to get ahead and get the better things in life . But it's hard . " He paused to shake his head again . " Occasionally you just have to let go ... " At the word " go " he slipped back down two ...
... shook his head . " You have to work so hard to get ahead and get the better things in life . But it's hard . " He paused to shake his head again . " Occasionally you just have to let go ... " At the word " go " he slipped back down two ...
Page 374
... shook his head . " No , you see I'm a step ahead of Clea and Rolth , just on one point . Prime numbers , or Formats last theorem , or the four - color map problem , or Gödel's law , it doesn't matter : yes , when we know everything ...
... shook his head . " No , you see I'm a step ahead of Clea and Rolth , just on one point . Prime numbers , or Formats last theorem , or the four - color map problem , or Gödel's law , it doesn't matter : yes , when we know everything ...
Page 386
... shaking his head . Then his eyes caught fixedly on the forms that had begun to shimmer on the stage . “ We'll send you as soon as we finish sending them , if you want , " Catham said . " With over a certain weight you can't predict the ...
... shaking his head . Then his eyes caught fixedly on the forms that had begun to shimmer on the stage . “ We'll send you as soon as we finish sending them , if you want , " Catham said . " With over a certain weight you can't predict the ...
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