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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... telepaths ? " " Nothing , " Tel said . " I just know ... " He stopped . " Well , I knew a guy once , I mean a guard , who could read minds . And he'd been scarred ... ” " You know a lot of interesting people , don't you , " Ptorn said ...
... telepaths ? " " Nothing , " Tel said . " I just know ... " He stopped . " Well , I knew a guy once , I mean a guard , who could read minds . And he'd been scarred ... ” " You know a lot of interesting people , don't you , " Ptorn said ...
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... telepaths . And besides , your eyes are funny . Did you know that ? " Tel blinked . " I'm not a telepath , " Ptorn said again . " But any forest guard would have told you that story if you had said what you did . We trust each other ...
... telepaths . And besides , your eyes are funny . Did you know that ? " Tel blinked . " I'm not a telepath , " Ptorn said again . " But any forest guard would have told you that story if you had said what you did . We trust each other ...
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... telepaths among them . The telepaths tried to remain above this war , but were at last dragged into it . Our agents , a telepath among them , con- vinced them — in an effort to find some other solution less destructive than this mock ...
... telepaths among them . The telepaths tried to remain above this war , but were at last dragged into it . Our agents , a telepath among them , con- vinced them — in an effort to find some other solution less destructive than this mock ...
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