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 101
... dark , and slept . When the giant's hand shook his shoulder , it was still dark . The boy did not jump this time . He blinked against the night and pulled his feet under him . It had grown colder and the wind brushed his neck and ...
... dark , and slept . When the giant's hand shook his shoulder , it was still dark . The boy did not jump this time . He blinked against the night and pulled his feet under him . It had grown colder and the wind brushed his neck and ...
Page 121
... dark- ness on the crest of the evening sea . Clouds banded the deep blue horizon . There were three stars out , the same stars that he had looked at as a boy when his sunup to sundown workday ended . Between hunger and hunger there had ...
... dark- ness on the crest of the evening sea . Clouds banded the deep blue horizon . There were three stars out , the same stars that he had looked at as a boy when his sunup to sundown workday ended . Between hunger and hunger there had ...
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... dark row of tanks . " Here's my baby , " Shrimp said , whacking the black metal hull . It rang hollowly as they went around to the side . " Inside'll do it , " Curly said , opening the door . The hydraulic ladder dropped its rubber ...
... dark row of tanks . " Here's my baby , " Shrimp said , whacking the black metal hull . It rang hollowly as they went around to the side . " Inside'll do it , " Curly said , opening the door . The hydraulic ladder dropped its rubber ...
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