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 156
... street . And let's say it stops about a quarter of the way from the end of the block . What happens ? " " It stops ? " " Well , no , I don't mean stop exactly . Let's say it just cuts its motor . " " Then it goes on rolling . " " How ...
... street . And let's say it stops about a quarter of the way from the end of the block . What happens ? " " It stops ? " " Well , no , I don't mean stop exactly . Let's say it just cuts its motor . " " Then it goes on rolling . " " How ...
Page 296
... streets of the city's hub with shadow . Jon walked through the street , feeling both powerful and re- laxed . Towards the middle ring of the city the spectacular buildings of the central section gave way to more ordinary structures ...
... streets of the city's hub with shadow . Jon walked through the street , feeling both powerful and re- laxed . Towards the middle ring of the city the spectacular buildings of the central section gave way to more ordinary structures ...
Page 301
... street ahead of us . Then this woman and the weirdest guy you ever saw jumped out ; half his head is plastic , and you can see all the brains and things ! He runs up the street and the woman is right behind him , and he cries out ...
... street ahead of us . Then this woman and the weirdest guy you ever saw jumped out ; half his head is plastic , and you can see all the brains and things ! He runs up the street and the woman is right behind him , and he cries out ...
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