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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... transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over the heads of the guards ... ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand .
... transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over the heads of the guards ... ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand .
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... transit - ribbon to do some spying . " Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit - ribbon was built , correct ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the ...
... transit - ribbon to do some spying . " Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit - ribbon was built , correct ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the ...
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... transit ribbon was built between Telphar , our one city on the mainland , and Toron , our island Capitol . Then Telphar was cut off from us by an increase in the radiation barrier - almost as if the area of Toromon's empire were being ...
... transit ribbon was built between Telphar , our one city on the mainland , and Toron , our island Capitol . Then Telphar was cut off from us by an increase in the radiation barrier - almost as if the area of Toromon's empire were being ...
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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