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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... voice . " All right . All right . Resume your seats in an orderly manner . Resume your seats . " Many of the soldiers had leaped from their chairs . The feminine voice continued over the loudspeaker . " Your reaction to that last ...
... voice . " All right . All right . Resume your seats in an orderly manner . Resume your seats . " Many of the soldiers had leaped from their chairs . The feminine voice continued over the loudspeaker . " Your reaction to that last ...
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... voice . " What's with that big yellow - eyed guard ? " " You mean Quorl , the Scout ? " the voice came back . " Yeah , the one who put up the sign - post . " " How do you mean ' what's with ' him ? " " Well , " said Tel , " he acts sort ...
... voice . " What's with that big yellow - eyed guard ? " " You mean Quorl , the Scout ? " the voice came back . " Yeah , the one who put up the sign - post . " " How do you mean ' what's with ' him ? " " Well , " said Tel , " he acts sort ...
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... voice came back , " you'd have to get awfully close to see any- thing . " Then , with the same amusement in his voice as when he'd shown Tel how to coax the flap - flap , he said , " Do you want to go over and take a look ? " Tel had to ...
... voice came back , " you'd have to get awfully close to see any- thing . " Then , with the same amusement in his voice as when he'd shown Tel how to coax the flap - flap , he said , " Do you want to go over and take a look ? " Tel had to ...
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