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 151
... shoulder . Suddenly Waggon rolled to his feet , ropes of muscle knotting along his shoulders , and thighs . He leaped , and they tumbled to the floor . The other recruits looked up from their bunks or where they sat reading military ...
... shoulder . Suddenly Waggon rolled to his feet , ropes of muscle knotting along his shoulders , and thighs . He leaped , and they tumbled to the floor . The other recruits looked up from their bunks or where they sat reading military ...
Page 321
... shoulder to shoulder , heads bent together , reading a poem from a crumpled paper , now stopping to ask each other what this line meant , now going back to look at another page . The patterns growing in their minds were not the same ...
... shoulder to shoulder , heads bent together , reading a poem from a crumpled paper , now stopping to ask each other what this line meant , now going back to look at another page . The patterns growing in their minds were not the same ...
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... Shoulder to shoulder against the indifferent night , they made their way towards the city's rim . CHAPTER SEVEN A SIREN still gnawed at the dark . A water main had broken and the street was covered with a black , glittering rush ...
... Shoulder to shoulder against the indifferent night , they made their way towards the city's rim . CHAPTER SEVEN A SIREN still gnawed at the dark . A water main had broken and the street was covered with a black , glittering rush ...
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