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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... Chargill ; I'm sleeping ! " King Uske , who had just turned twenty - one , though he had been the official ruler of Toromon since age nineteen , jammed his blond head beneath the overstuffed pillows that lay about the purple sheets ...
... Chargill ; I'm sleeping ! " King Uske , who had just turned twenty - one , though he had been the official ruler of Toromon since age nineteen , jammed his blond head beneath the overstuffed pillows that lay about the purple sheets ...
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... Chargill dryly . " Seeing that there may just be a war before the afternoon , why don't you listen to the report , which merely says that another flight of scouting planes has been crippled trying to observe the enemy just beyond the ...
... Chargill dryly . " Seeing that there may just be a war before the afternoon , why don't you listen to the report , which merely says that another flight of scouting planes has been crippled trying to observe the enemy just beyond the ...
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Samuel R. Delany. Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit ribbon was built , correct ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the dead city of Telphar , " ...
Samuel R. Delany. Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit ribbon was built , correct ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the dead city of Telphar , " ...
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Alter asked antimatter aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof 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 prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier Rara remember rock Rolth scream 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 Tloto told Tomar took Toromon Toron towers transit ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice walked wall What's whispered window woman