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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... Tetron ! " " -if Your Highness would only wait a moment to hear the report , " began the aged minister , " I believe— ” " Tetron ! " 66 -you would understand the necessity , " he continued calmly , " of disturbing you at such an ungodly ...
... Tetron ! " " -if Your Highness would only wait a moment to hear the report , " began the aged minister , " I believe— ” " Tetron ! " 66 -you would understand the necessity , " he continued calmly , " of disturbing you at such an ungodly ...
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... tetron ( pardon me . If you can't say it , I shouldn't say it either . ) device knocked out and a missile hurled at it . Bango ! The council says war . Well , I refuse to take it seriously . Why do we keep on wasting planes anyway ? Why ...
... tetron ( pardon me . If you can't say it , I shouldn't say it either . ) device knocked out and a missile hurled at it . Bango ! The council says war . Well , I refuse to take it seriously . Why do we keep on wasting planes anyway ? Why ...
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... tetron was discovered . A great empire has a great crime rate . Our penal system was used to supply miners for the tetron . Technology leaped ahead , and we developed many uses for the power that could be released from the tetron ...
... tetron was discovered . A great empire has a great crime rate . Our penal system was used to supply miners for the tetron . Technology leaped ahead , and we developed many uses for the power that could be released from the tetron ...
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