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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... Jeof hit him in the stomach once more , and as his head flopped forward the hand came back the other way , knuckles first , and slapped his face up . " Now , " Jeof said , turn- ing away from Vol again . “ As I was saying , hello ...
... Jeof hit him in the stomach once more , and as his head flopped forward the hand came back the other way , knuckles first , and slapped his face up . " Now , " Jeof said , turn- ing away from Vol again . “ As I was saying , hello ...
Page 330
... Jeof didn't like this . He thought Vol was chickening out of the whole business , and he wanted his return match . Then Jeof's gang got smashed by another gang , and he somehow managed to blame that on Vol , too . He swore he'd get even ...
... Jeof didn't like this . He thought Vol was chickening out of the whole business , and he wanted his return match . Then Jeof's gang got smashed by another gang , and he somehow managed to blame that on Vol , too . He swore he'd get even ...
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... Jeof . I didn't mean nothin ' like that . " " Fall out , Kino , " Jeof said . “ I'm in deep water . " " I'm going , " Kino said . He put the chalk in his pocket . Then he stopped . " Jeof , have you ever done one decent thing in your ...
... Jeof . I didn't mean nothin ' like that . " " Fall out , Kino , " Jeof said . “ I'm in deep water . " " I'm going , " Kino said . He put the chalk in his pocket . Then he stopped . " Jeof , have you ever done one decent thing in your ...
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