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 190
... Clea stood up , and took the bottles back in the bathroom . " I don't want to hear anything about the damned war . " When she closed the medicine chest , she looked in the mirror for the length of a held breath . When Clea came out ...
... Clea stood up , and took the bottles back in the bathroom . " I don't want to hear anything about the damned war . " When she closed the medicine chest , she looked in the mirror for the length of a held breath . When Clea came out ...
Page 251
... Clea looked over the top of the calliope wagon at the grassy meadow . Then she stood up . " What is it ? " Mr. Triton asked . " Who are they ? " Clea slipped out from behind the bench , jumped from the plat- form and began to run across ...
... Clea looked over the top of the calliope wagon at the grassy meadow . Then she stood up . " What is it ? " Mr. Triton asked . " Who are they ? " Clea slipped out from behind the bench , jumped from the plat- form and began to run across ...
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... Clea thought . Why must they all speak of that blind moment of contact that had blanketed the empire that second at ... Clea and Rolth looked at each other , smile and half - smile leap- ing between them . " But why do you want to go ...
... Clea thought . Why must they all speak of that blind moment of contact that had blanketed the empire that second at ... Clea and Rolth looked at each other , smile and half - smile leap- ing between them . " But why do you want to go ...
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