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 101
... feet under him . It had grown colder and the wind brushed his neck and fingered his hair . Then a high sound cut ... feet down ( still a hundred feet above the water ) was a table of rock . out of the dead city 101.
... feet under him . It had grown colder and the wind brushed his neck and fingered his hair . Then a high sound cut ... feet down ( still a hundred feet above the water ) was a table of rock . out of the dead city 101.
Page 243
... feet away . A very neurotic quail was walking among them . Or maybe it was an extraordinarily self - composed feather duster . It was exploring the remains of the fire on three large webbed feet . It poked at a bit of charcoal , circled ...
... feet away . A very neurotic quail was walking among them . Or maybe it was an extraordinarily self - composed feather duster . It was exploring the remains of the fire on three large webbed feet . It poked at a bit of charcoal , circled ...
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... feet , the other , the open - toed nean- derthal boots . " That's Lug ! " Tel said . " He must be chasing my- " The form was just visible thirty feet away and moving farther off . " Where does he think he's chasing it ? " said Curly ...
... feet , the other , the open - toed nean- derthal boots . " That's Lug ! " Tel said . " He must be chasing my- " The form was just visible thirty feet away and moving farther off . " Where does he think he's chasing it ? " said Curly ...
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