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 107
... tried to stop it . That was all I wanted . Would it have happened if ... " " Sit back , " Rara said . " If you're ... trying to move the old man back into his chair , " will you sit down and relax ! You're not well ! You're not well ...
... tried to stop it . That was all I wanted . Would it have happened if ... " " Sit back , " Rara said . " If you're ... trying to move the old man back into his chair , " will you sit down and relax ! You're not well ! You're not well ...
Page 185
... trying to do to him ? What was the damn machine used for anyway ? And if he didn't know , how could he fight the ... tried to squirm up into his mind . Slowly he relaxed . He was calm . He was alert . Two or three people in the shop had ...
... trying to do to him ? What was the damn machine used for anyway ? And if he didn't know , how could he fight the ... tried to squirm up into his mind . Slowly he relaxed . He was calm . He was alert . Two or three people in the shop had ...
Page 231
... trying to get them all to work together . You've got to listen to every- body's say , and try to keep everybody happy and alive at the same time . " " How do you do it ? " " You don't . At least never as well as you want to , " Mr ...
... trying to get them all to work together . You've got to listen to every- body's say , and try to keep everybody happy and alive at the same time . " " How do you do it ? " " You don't . At least never as well as you want to , " Mr ...
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