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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... Uske's shoulder , pressed the button on the night table by the bed ; the curtains swept back across the window . The hand went out as if it had been a flame . " Now you keep still and be quiet ! ” The pressure released and the King felt ...
... Uske's shoulder , pressed the button on the night table by the bed ; the curtains swept back across the window . The hand went out as if it had been a flame . " Now you keep still and be quiet ! ” The pressure released and the King felt ...
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... Uske . " You're crazy . " " I might have been a little crazy then . But five years in the tetron mines has brought me pretty close to my senses . " " You're a murderer- " " It was in self - defense , and you know it . Those guards that ...
... Uske . " You're crazy . " " I might have been a little crazy then . But five years in the tetron mines has brought me pretty close to my senses . " " You're a murderer- " " It was in self - defense , and you know it . Those guards that ...
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... Uske leaned on one elbow , blinked , and scratched his head . A shadow approached him , then stopped , naked ... Uske said . " Fine , " said the shadow . " Do you know what I've been doing since the last time you saw me ? " " I couldn't ...
... Uske leaned on one elbow , blinked , and scratched his head . A shadow approached him , then stopped , naked ... Uske said . " Fine , " said the shadow . " Do you know what I've been doing since the last time you saw me ? " " I couldn't ...
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