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 188
... walked down one of the radial streets of Toron , past the merchants ' mansions , past the hive - houses , into the sprawling rim of the Devil's Pot , past the lot where the Triton Extravaganza was folding its tents to begin its main ...
... walked down one of the radial streets of Toron , past the merchants ' mansions , past the hive - houses , into the sprawling rim of the Devil's Pot , past the lot where the Triton Extravaganza was folding its tents to begin its main ...
Page 291
... walked up the radial street of the city , other fears returned . There was the nameless one from childhood that had to do with a woman's face that might have been his mother's , and a man's that was probably his father's , but it was ...
... walked up the radial street of the city , other fears returned . There was the nameless one from childhood that had to do with a woman's face that might have been his mother's , and a man's that was probably his father's , but it was ...
Page 296
... walked through the street , feeling both powerful and re- laxed . Towards the middle ring of the city the spectacular buildings of the central section gave way to more ordinary structures . Here people walked back and forth , many ...
... walked through the street , feeling both powerful and re- laxed . Towards the middle ring of the city the spectacular buildings of the central section gave way to more ordinary structures . Here people walked back and forth , many ...
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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