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 134
... Jon and his parent went under the water where they could see better . One of Jon's eyelids , the transparent one , was actually an enve- lope of tissue which he could flood with vitreous solution when he was submerged to form a ...
... Jon and his parent went under the water where they could see better . One of Jon's eyelids , the transparent one , was actually an enve- lope of tissue which he could flood with vitreous solution when he was submerged to form a ...
Page 327
... Jon's clothes and then to his face . " Going back that way ? " Quick , suspicious nod . " I'll walk part of the way with you , " Jon told him . They started , Kino still wary . “ You were about to write : You Are Trapped in That Bright ...
... Jon's clothes and then to his face . " Going back that way ? " Quick , suspicious nod . " I'll walk part of the way with you , " Jon told him . They started , Kino still wary . “ You were about to write : You Are Trapped in That Bright ...
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... Jon thought back to the last ball he had attended at the palace . " Petra , shall I open the dancing ? " asked the King ... Jon's side . " We'll go now , Petra . I hope it goes well . " " Thank you , Jon . " " Good evening , my King ...
... Jon thought back to the last ball he had attended at the palace . " Petra , shall I open the dancing ? " asked the King ... Jon's side . " We'll go now , Petra . I hope it goes well . " " Thank you , Jon . " " Good evening , my King ...
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