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 101
... Tloto . The claw jumped forward , grabbed , snatched back . The boy tried to make his mouth go into a smile . But Tloto couldn't see , so it didn't matter . He turned back to the fire , and when he looked up again , Tloto was gone . As ...
... Tloto . The claw jumped forward , grabbed , snatched back . The boy tried to make his mouth go into a smile . But Tloto couldn't see , so it didn't matter . He turned back to the fire , and when he looked up again , Tloto was gone . As ...
Page 104
... Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until the bark burned his palm . Suddenly the animal turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the ...
... Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until the bark burned his palm . Suddenly the animal turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the ...
Page 105
... Tloto had gone . " You're still wondering about Tloto ? I could tell you how living here on the mainland so close to the radiation forced some of our tribes millennia ahead on the human evolutionary chain , while other tribes were ...
... Tloto had gone . " You're still wondering about Tloto ? I could tell you how living here on the mainland so close to the radiation forced some of our tribes millennia ahead on the human evolutionary chain , while other tribes were ...
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