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 40
The yellow beach lashed across his mind so that his 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
...
The yellow beach lashed across his mind so that his 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
...
Page 245
It opened an eye and looked back at Tel. The boy laughed out loud. The eye was
the milky hue of a polished shell, streaked with veins of gold. Another eye
opened to reveal mother of pearl. Then a third (as the other two closed) shone
through ...
It opened an eye and looked back at Tel. The boy laughed out loud. The eye was
the milky hue of a polished shell, streaked with veins of gold. Another eye
opened to reveal mother of pearl. Then a third (as the other two closed) shone
through ...
Page 261
On the shore almost everybody's 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
...
On the shore almost everybody's 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
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Fall of the Towers |
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 2004 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 140003132X, 9781400031320 |
| Length | 438 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Historical / General Fiction / Science Fiction / General |
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