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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... waiting for someone else to make up his mind . But the decision was not forthcoming . Belligerently he started up the staircase to the left . Halfway up he became a little more cautious , his bare feet padding softly , his rough hand ...
... waiting for someone else to make up his mind . But the decision was not forthcoming . Belligerently he started up the staircase to the left . Halfway up he became a little more cautious , his bare feet padding softly , his rough hand ...
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... waiting . It's funny , that's most of what you do in this army , wait . You wait to go out and fight . And once you go out , then you start waiting to turn around and come back . " " Wonder what it'll be like . " " A few bombs over that ...
... waiting . It's funny , that's most of what you do in this army , wait . You wait to go out and fight . And once you go out , then you start waiting to turn around and come back . " " Wonder what it'll be like . " " A few bombs over that ...
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... waiting while the other worms joined them , waiting for the prayers to begin . At last when the mud was filled , the familiar vibrations of the priestess reached through the temple . She communicat- ed to her congregation through an ...
... waiting while the other worms joined them , waiting for the prayers to begin . At last when the mud was filled , the familiar vibrations of the priestess reached through the temple . She communicat- ed to her congregation through an ...
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