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 106
... edge of a deserted meadow across which was a crazily sagging farmhouse . There were no people there . Another had taken them to the edge of the jungle , beyond which the ground was gray and broken , and row after row of unsteady shacks ...
... edge of a deserted meadow across which was a crazily sagging farmhouse . There were no people there . Another had taken them to the edge of the jungle , beyond which the ground was gray and broken , and row after row of unsteady shacks ...
Page 121
... edge of the world . At the end of the metal ribbon was a transparent crystal sphere , fifteen feet in diameter ... edge , and a flexible metal ramp ran in a dark ribbon from the ' copter to the edge of the solarium . The men that marched ...
... edge of the world . At the end of the metal ribbon was a transparent crystal sphere , fifteen feet in diameter ... edge , and a flexible metal ramp ran in a dark ribbon from the ' copter to the edge of the solarium . The men that marched ...
Page 388
... edge of the pier ( and did not see three of them leap for the side of the boat , did not see four hands slip from the deck's edge , nor hear two bodies smack into the froth ; nor did she see the two hands that held . Then an elbow ...
... edge of the pier ( and did not see three of them leap for the side of the boat , did not see four hands slip from the deck's edge , nor hear two bodies smack into the froth ; nor did she see the two hands that held . Then an elbow ...
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