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 184
... someone is setting up a square of fifteen centiunit pieces with the corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience cannot ...
... someone is setting up a square of fifteen centiunit pieces with the corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience cannot ...
Page 237
... someone called up to the driver . Shrimp shrugged . The rising and falling of the tetron motor sizzled beneath them . Tel leaned his head back on the wall . The vibrations had nearly put him to sleep when there was another crash . He ...
... someone called up to the driver . Shrimp shrugged . The rising and falling of the tetron motor sizzled beneath them . Tel leaned his head back on the wall . The vibrations had nearly put him to sleep when there was another crash . He ...
Page 335
... someone fled down the street , someone else who must have wandered upon the scene , observed from just around the corner , at last to flee terrified at this point , some mali this time who would have fought with fists and weapons , but ...
... someone fled down the street , someone else who must have wandered upon the scene , observed from just around the corner , at last to flee terrified at this point , some mali this time who would have fought with fists and weapons , but ...
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Alter asked aquariums Arkor barrier began blinked breath camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon and Alter Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra Ptorn pulled Quorl Rara remember rock Rolth screamed shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought told Tomar Toromon Toron towers TOWERS OF TORON transit-ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice Vol Nonik walked wall What's whispered window woman