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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... suddenly there had been no reason to fear further . He tried to untangle the recollection . He had entered the city , found the sending stage of the transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over ...
... suddenly there had been no reason to fear further . He tried to untangle the recollection . He had entered the city , found the sending stage of the transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over ...
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... Suddenly the green detector light flashed in the half darkness of the cabin . The generator ! The radiation ... suddenly rushed in cold behind him . There was a hell of a lot of noise and the needle quietly swung ... He was going down ...
... Suddenly the green detector light flashed in the half darkness of the cabin . The generator ! The radiation ... suddenly rushed in cold behind him . There was a hell of a lot of noise and the needle quietly swung ... He was going down ...
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... Suddenly his eye - stalk caught the great form that he knew must be Arkor coming down over the rocks ( with Alter and Tel . Yes , definitely : because the creature suddenly did a flying leap between two crags that could have only been ...
... Suddenly his eye - stalk caught the great form that he knew must be Arkor coming down over the rocks ( with Alter and Tel . Yes , definitely : because the creature suddenly did a flying leap between two crags that could have only been ...
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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