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 73
... window . Geryn's gray eyes fidgeted back and forth . Finally he said , " Why are you out here ? And who is he ? What do you want ? " " I'm from the Duchess of Petra , " Jon said . " I've come to take Let to the forest people . " " Yes ...
... window . Geryn's gray eyes fidgeted back and forth . Finally he said , " Why are you out here ? And who is he ? What do you want ? " " I'm from the Duchess of Petra , " Jon said . " I've come to take Let to the forest people . " " Yes ...
Page 108
... window- sill two men entered the room . Fire - blades poised , they walked to the crumpled body , lifted it between them , and carried it back to the window . Their arm bands showed the royal insignia of the palace guards . Tel was ...
... window- sill two men entered the room . Fire - blades poised , they walked to the crumpled body , lifted it between them , and carried it back to the window . Their arm bands showed the royal insignia of the palace guards . Tel was ...
Page 271
... window caught in her falling hair , beautiful with her closed eyes , her olive lids , darker than the rest of her face , the rest of her skin , which was beautiful with colors like honey and the blush of kharba fruits going from white ...
... window caught in her falling hair , beautiful with her closed eyes , her olive lids , darker than the rest of her face , the rest of her skin , which was beautiful with colors like honey and the blush of kharba fruits going from white ...
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