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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... eyes stung . He saw the salt - and - pepper rocks , shaling away and knobbed with periwinkle shells . He saw brown fingers of seaweed clutch the sand as waves went out . Tel blinked the city back into his eyes . Tears washed the broken ...
... eyes stung . He saw the salt - and - pepper rocks , shaling away and knobbed with periwinkle shells . He saw brown fingers of seaweed clutch the sand as waves went out . Tel blinked the city back into his eyes . Tears washed the broken ...
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... eyes . Tloto had to drag Quorl halfway up the mountain before the giant got the idea . When he did , he began to run . Quorl found the boy just before sunset . He was breathing in short gasps , fists clenched , eyes closed . Blood on ...
... eyes . Tloto had to drag Quorl halfway up the mountain before the giant got the idea . When he did , he began to run . Quorl found the boy just before sunset . He was breathing in short gasps , fists clenched , eyes closed . Blood on ...
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... eyes are green- " " That's not what I meant , " said Curly . " What I'm talking about only happens when it was darker , and not as much light as now . Come on , let's get in the shade . " " Hey , look , " said Tel , " I gotta get going ...
... eyes are green- " " That's not what I meant , " said Curly . " What I'm talking about only happens when it was darker , and not as much light as now . Come on , let's get in the shade . " " Hey , look , " said Tel , " I gotta get going ...
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