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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... Ptorn said . His wide ivory yellow index nails struck the milled edge . Three and five leapt away from the square . Ptorn picked up the money . " Two and six , " he said , moving the corner coin back for another shot . Click - click ...
... Ptorn said . His wide ivory yellow index nails struck the milled edge . Three and five leapt away from the square . Ptorn picked up the money . " Two and six , " he said , moving the corner coin back for another shot . Click - click ...
Page 174
... Ptorn asked . " Huh ? " said Tel , looking up again . “ Oh . As a matter of fact I'm thinking about a necklace . " " A necklace ? " " Yeah , " Tel said . " It was made of shells , polished shells that I strung on leather thongs ...
... Ptorn asked . " Huh ? " said Tel , looking up again . “ Oh . As a matter of fact I'm thinking about a necklace . " " A necklace ? " " Yeah , " Tel said . " It was made of shells , polished shells that I strung on leather thongs ...
Page 277
... Ptorn beside him . The barrack cabins at the edge of the new encampment were dim and distant through fog . " It's ... Ptorn laughed . 99 " You know , I've been thinking . I've been thinking about it a long time , too . " " About what ...
... Ptorn beside him . The barrack cabins at the edge of the new encampment were dim and distant through fog . " It's ... Ptorn laughed . 99 " You know , I've been thinking . I've been thinking about it a long time , too . " " About what ...
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