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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... door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a clatter of dishes on the shelves , the slide of crockery slipping over plastic racks , and a voice : " All right there . You carry this one . " Then a grunt , and the ker - flop of ...
... door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a clatter of dishes on the shelves , the slide of crockery slipping over plastic racks , and a voice : " All right there . You carry this one . " Then a grunt , and the ker - flop of ...
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... door . " Who are you ? " he asked . " I'm a friend of yours if you'll let me be . " Where are you going to take me ? " دو " You're going on a trip . But you'll come back . " " What has my mother said ? " " Your mother doesn't know ...
... door . " Who are you ? " he asked . " I'm a friend of yours if you'll let me be . " Where are you going to take me ? " دو " You're going on a trip . But you'll come back . " " What has my mother said ? " " Your mother doesn't know ...
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... door . " Let found the proper key , put it in the lock , and the door swung back . " All right , you kids , " said the guard who was standing on the other side of the door ( he wore a size seventeen uniform ) , " you come along with me ...
... door . " Let found the proper key , put it in the lock , and the door swung back . " All right , you kids , " said the guard who was standing on the other side of the door ( he wore a size seventeen uniform ) , " you come along with me ...
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