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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... shrugged . " I just don't understand it , " he said , " stuff like this . But it's strange . The thing about the eye in the boy's tongue , that made me feel funny . " Clea nodded . " Me too . That's why I like it . " Tomar looked at the ...
... shrugged . " I just don't understand it , " he said , " stuff like this . But it's strange . The thing about the eye in the boy's tongue , that made me feel funny . " Clea nodded . " Me too . That's why I like it . " Tomar looked at the ...
Page 157
... shrugged . " I suppose some exceptional minds among you can . But it's really not important , is it ? ” " I guess not , " Tel said . " Us men , " he repeated . " What do you call yourselves , if you don't think of yourselves as men ...
... shrugged . " I suppose some exceptional minds among you can . But it's really not important , is it ? ” " I guess not , " Tel said . " Us men , " he repeated . " What do you call yourselves , if you don't think of yourselves as men ...
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... shrugged . " I was the one who wrote it first , " said Kino , as though he didn't expect to be believed . Then he added , " I didn't say it first , but I wrote it first . Then I saw a couple of places where it was chalked where I didn't ...
... shrugged . " I was the one who wrote it first , " said Kino , as though he didn't expect to be believed . Then he added , " I didn't say it first , but I wrote it first . Then I saw a couple of places where it was chalked where I didn't ...
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