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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... corner , say a deci - unit , the chances that it would hit both corner coins would go up , and that's your randomness . " " Really ? " " Sure , " Tomar said . “ My girlfriend's a mathematician , and she was telling me all about ...
... corner , say a deci - unit , the chances that it would hit both corner coins would go up , and that's your randomness . " " Really ? " " Sure , " Tomar said . “ My girlfriend's a mathematician , and she was telling me all about ...
Page 147
... corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner . " Shoot it into the gap there , " he said . She put her forefinger on the silver disc , was still , then snapped her finger ...
... corner missing . Now he took a smaller coin and put it on the table about a foot away from the missing corner . " Shoot it into the gap there , " he said . She put her forefinger on the silver disc , was still , then snapped her finger ...
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... corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience cannot hear , the men look up from their game . Someone scrapes the coins ...
... corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience cannot hear , the men look up from their game . Someone scrapes the coins ...
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Alter asked antimatter aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier Rara remember rock Rolth scream shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought Tloto told Tomar took Toromon Toron towers transit ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice walked wall What's whispered window woman