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 132
... took a handful of coins from his pocket . He arranged fifteen copper centi - units in a square , four by four , with one corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner ...
... took a handful of coins from his pocket . He arranged fifteen copper centi - units in a square , four by four , with one corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner ...
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... took a few running steps forward and heard the sound of paddle feet receding . " Hey , come on , " he called . " Come back and stay with me . " Maybe he should have brought some char- coal . He'd put some in his pocket that morning ...
... took a few running steps forward and heard the sound of paddle feet receding . " Hey , come on , " he called . " Come back and stay with me . " Maybe he should have brought some char- coal . He'd put some in his pocket that morning ...
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... took a breath and dived as she went off the edge . Water hit him of indifferent temperature . He curled up , sinking from momentum , and tore off one sandal . The pressure on his ears was lessening , which meant he was rising towards ...
... took a breath and dived as she went off the edge . Water hit him of indifferent temperature . He curled up , sinking from momentum , and tore off one sandal . The pressure on his ears was lessening , which meant he was rising towards ...
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