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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... told you I knew it . " " Yeah , " said Jon quietly . He stood very still . " You say the other two ... didn't make ... told you that ... story ? " " Petra , ' " Let answered . " She told it to me . It's a good story , huh ? " " Yes ...
... told you I knew it . " " Yeah , " said Jon quietly . He stood very still . " You say the other two ... didn't make ... told you that ... story ? " " Petra , ' " Let answered . " She told it to me . It's a good story , huh ? " " Yes ...
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... told him to leap from the roof . But he had to do what he was told . He always had . ( He was following the giant through the dull leaves because the giant had told him to . ) When he had leaped from the roof , then rolled over and ...
... told him to leap from the roof . But he had to do what he was told . He always had . ( He was following the giant through the dull leaves because the giant had told him to . ) When he had leaped from the roof , then rolled over and ...
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... told me to write what he had said on the boards . I told him we had to get to General Medical . It was still pretty early and there were hardly any people out , I was going right down the big street to get there as quick as I could when ...
... told me to write what he had said on the boards . I told him we had to get to General Medical . It was still pretty early and there were hardly any people out , I was going right down the big street to get there as quick as I could when ...
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