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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... Arkor , " said Petra , suddenly . ( Her voice was higher , less sure . ) They turned . Arkor stood in the sand , his bare feet wide on the white dune . The triple scars down his face welled bright blood in the hot light . They came ...
... Arkor , " said Petra , suddenly . ( Her voice was higher , less sure . ) They turned . Arkor stood in the sand , his bare feet wide on the white dune . The triple scars down his face welled bright blood in the hot light . They came ...
Page 234
... Arkor said . " His consent will be given , not taken . " " He is not of the forest people ? " " No , " answered Arkor . " He came here and chose to avail himself of our people's hospitality . It is his right to choose to leave . May I ...
... Arkor said . " His consent will be given , not taken . " " He is not of the forest people ? " " No , " answered Arkor . " He came here and chose to avail himself of our people's hospitality . It is his right to choose to leave . May I ...
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... Arkor met them on the other side of the trees . They had nearly reached the shore when Arkor suddenly stopped . " The boat ! " he said . " What is it ? " Jon asked . They were still in the woods . “ It's malis , ” Arkor said , “ at the ...
... Arkor met them on the other side of the trees . They had nearly reached the shore when Arkor suddenly stopped . " The boat ! " he said . " What is it ? " Jon asked . They were still in the woods . “ It's malis , ” Arkor said , “ at the ...
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