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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... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything , " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking . " Chargill smiled . “ May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything , " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking . " Chargill smiled . “ May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
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... enemy , had managed to increase the radiation artificially , using some equip- ment from Telphar itself . " Catham turned to Jon now . " Three years ago , as well , your sister , Dr. Clea Koshar , discovered the inverse sub ...
... enemy , had managed to increase the radiation artificially , using some equip- ment from Telphar itself . " Catham turned to Jon now . " Three years ago , as well , your sister , Dr. Clea Koshar , discovered the inverse sub ...
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... enemy ... yes , the ... " and beyond the mist , something moved across the mud , something was knocking aside the plants ; at first he thought it might be one of the tanks returning , only it wasn't .... No ! " No ! " he cried , " it ...
... enemy ... yes , the ... " and beyond the mist , something moved across the mud , something was knocking aside the plants ; at first he thought it might be one of the tanks returning , only it wasn't .... No ! " No ! " he cried , " it ...
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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