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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... Quorl was cleaning the last tiny bone with his teeth when there was a sound . They turned . Another branch broke to their left . " Tloto , " Quorl called harshly . It moved closer ; the boy could hear it moving . Then he saw the tall ...
... Quorl was cleaning the last tiny bone with his teeth when there was a sound . They turned . Another branch broke to their left . " Tloto , " Quorl called harshly . It moved closer ; the boy could hear it moving . Then he saw the tall ...
Page 108
... Quorl went over and picked him up . This is the best dream , the boy thought , from that dark place he had retreated to behind the pain , because Quorl is here . The hands were lifting him now , he was held close , warm , somehow safe ...
... Quorl went over and picked him up . This is the best dream , the boy thought , from that dark place he had retreated to behind the pain , because Quorl is here . The hands were lifting him now , he was held close , warm , somehow safe ...
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... Quorl might suddenly return and go with him . At last he took a deep breath and started haltingly forward . The moonlight made the last hundred yards easy . He reached a vantage where he could look down through the wet leaves onto the ...
... Quorl might suddenly return and go with him . At last he took a deep breath and started haltingly forward . The moonlight made the last hundred yards easy . He reached a vantage where he could look down through the wet leaves onto the ...
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