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 129
... began to glide away from the methane falls and up the nearly vertical mountain slope . Someone was coming toward him with shiny red eye - stalks waving in greeting . " Greeting to the new colony , " the eye - stalks signaled . Jon ...
... began to glide away from the methane falls and up the nearly vertical mountain slope . Someone was coming toward him with shiny red eye - stalks waving in greeting . " Greeting to the new colony , " the eye - stalks signaled . Jon ...
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... began the invocation . May the mud be pliable always . May none under her protection bifurcate until he chooses , responded the congregation , and the prayers began . At last the rituals ended and the priestess began the 214 samuel r ...
... began the invocation . May the mud be pliable always . May none under her protection bifurcate until he chooses , responded the congregation , and the prayers began . At last the rituals ended and the priestess began the 214 samuel r ...
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... began to follow her . " They stole my youngest from me , then they murdered my eldest . But I had a picture , a miniature picture with a metal frame , about the size of my palm , a picture of my son . It was the kind vendors used to ...
... began to follow her . " They stole my youngest from me , then they murdered my eldest . But I had a picture , a miniature picture with a metal frame , about the size of my palm , a picture of my son . It was the kind vendors used to ...
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