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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... woman with a box of trinkets and a brown - red birthmark splashed over the left side of her face pushed among the new arrivals . Near fifty , her dress and head - rag were a well - washed gray . " And would you like to buy a pair of ...
... woman with a box of trinkets and a brown - red birthmark splashed over the left side of her face pushed among the new arrivals . Near fifty , her dress and head - rag were a well - washed gray . " And would you like to buy a pair of ...
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... woman who lives across the street and me , we figured it out . We both bought it from the same woman this morning , and that's all it could be . I never eat the stuff myself , but I served it for lunch . " " Well , I'm still hungry ...
... woman who lives across the street and me , we figured it out . We both bought it from the same woman this morning , and that's all it could be . I never eat the stuff myself , but I served it for lunch . " " Well , I'm still hungry ...
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... woman with the purple birthmark , standing behind the counter , glanced up , then stepped back and opened her mouth . Alter had grabbed Jon's arm . She let go of it slowly and whispered , " Aunt Rara ! " The woman ran from behind the ...
... woman with the purple birthmark , standing behind the counter , glanced up , then stepped back and opened her mouth . Alter had grabbed Jon's arm . She let go of it slowly and whispered , " Aunt Rara ! " The woman ran from behind the ...
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