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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... Geryn stepped around the table and looked closely . The black eyes were two sharp spots of darkness in a face the color of ship- boards gone two winters without paint . " Geryn , " Alter said . “ Geryn , he isn't a spy . He's from the ...
... Geryn stepped around the table and looked closely . The black eyes were two sharp spots of darkness in a face the color of ship- boards gone two winters without paint . " Geryn , " Alter said . “ Geryn , he isn't a spy . He's from the ...
Page 42
... Geryn drained a mug of green liquor , slammed the empty glass on the board , and cried : " The war ! Yes , the war ! " " Here we go , " Alter whispered . Geryn ran his finger along the rim of the glass . " The war , " he said again . He ...
... Geryn drained a mug of green liquor , slammed the empty glass on the board , and cried : " The war ! Yes , the war ! " " Here we go , " Alter whispered . Geryn ran his finger along the rim of the glass . " The war , " he said again . He ...
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... Geryn ? " Alter said . " I guess that's what his name is . ” They started back out of the alley . “ Tell me , ” Jon said , “ just what sort of person is Geryn ? " " He's a strange old man . He talks to himself all the time , " said ...
... Geryn ? " Alter said . " I guess that's what his name is . ” They started back out of the alley . “ Tell me , ” Jon said , “ just what sort of person is Geryn ? " " He's a strange old man . He talks to himself all the time , " said ...
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