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 85
... aquariums found a clumsily put together , but never- theless unmistakable , bomb in the lavatory . It was dismantled . There was no accident . But an authority , Vice - Supervisor T'jones of Koshar Synthetic Food Concerns ( one name you ...
... aquariums found a clumsily put together , but never- theless unmistakable , bomb in the lavatory . It was dismantled . There was no accident . But an authority , Vice - Supervisor T'jones of Koshar Synthetic Food Concerns ( one name you ...
Page 88
... aquariums . In the huge pontooned building , vast rows of transparent plastic tubes , three feet in diameter ... aquarium , relieving the first shift . They had been on about two hours when a sweating man who was an assistant feeder ...
... aquariums . In the huge pontooned building , vast rows of transparent plastic tubes , three feet in diameter ... aquarium , relieving the first shift . They had been on about two hours when a sweating man who was an assistant feeder ...
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... aquariums ! Fish from the aquariums served at an affair of state ! Why I remember when no one would think of serving anything but imported goods from the mainland . Aquarium- grown fish ! Why , the idea . What has the world come to ...
... aquariums ! Fish from the aquariums served at an affair of state ! Why I remember when no one would think of serving anything but imported goods from the mainland . Aquarium- grown fish ! Why , the idea . What has the world come to ...
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