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 98
... sound from between his teeth . The hands , with their ropes and ridges , strained the log upward ; the sound became a howl . The giant's feet braced against the dirt , slid in the dirt , and the hands that had snapped tiny necks and ...
... sound from between his teeth . The hands , with their ropes and ridges , strained the log upward ; the sound became a howl . The giant's feet braced against the dirt , slid in the dirt , and the hands that had snapped tiny necks and ...
Page 219
... sounds came again , a distinct flapping sound , irregu- lar , stuttering ; then the chirping melody . Tel went inside the barracks pulling his shirt out of his pants . He shrugged it down his arms , and sat on the edge of his bed . The ...
... sounds came again , a distinct flapping sound , irregu- lar , stuttering ; then the chirping melody . Tel went inside the barracks pulling his shirt out of his pants . He shrugged it down his arms , and sat on the edge of his bed . The ...
Page 338
... sound of waves trudge the long , soft , sandy ground . Sadness or joy , equal and one , have caused each ended race I have begun . " The sailor sucked his teeth , shook his head , and scratched his stomach with his thumb . " I like that ...
... sound of waves trudge the long , soft , sandy ground . Sadness or joy , equal and one , have caused each ended race I have begun . " The sailor sucked his teeth , shook his head , and scratched his stomach with his thumb . " I like that ...
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