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 114
... Toron . There's an awful lot of equipment here that's more or less mine if I can figure out how to use it . And I've got a friend here who knows more in that line than I gave him credit for . I've overheard some closed - circuit ...
... Toron . There's an awful lot of equipment here that's more or less mine if I can figure out how to use it . And I've got a friend here who knows more in that line than I gave him credit for . I've overheard some closed - circuit ...
Page 155
... Toron thrust over the edge of the sea . The windows of the Grand Ballroom in the royal palace of Toron rose coffin - shaped two stories toward the ceiling . As the panes light- ened , the musicians blew windy music from their tuned ...
... Toron thrust over the edge of the sea . The windows of the Grand Ballroom in the royal palace of Toron rose coffin - shaped two stories toward the ceiling . As the panes light- ened , the musicians blew windy music from their tuned ...
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... Toron before the end of this week . At least there we'll be sure of a steady crowd . The war hasn't left people in the mood for circuses . And everyone's migrat- ing to the city anyway . " Just then Clea looked over the top of the ...
... Toron before the end of this week . At least there we'll be sure of a steady crowd . The war hasn't left people in the mood for circuses . And everyone's migrat- ing to the city anyway . " Just then Clea looked over the top of the ...
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