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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... frowned ; then that frown broke into an expression more frantic , desperate , as he searched for the ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand . The ...
... frowned ; then that frown broke into an expression more frantic , desperate , as he searched for the ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand . The ...
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... frowned , and moved on . When he reached her he , too , frowned . " What's that ? " he asked . " Where ? " She turned to look . A scowl of surprise formed around her light eyes . " I didn't see that before ! " Someone had written across ...
... frowned , and moved on . When he reached her he , too , frowned . " What's that ? " he asked . " Where ? " She turned to look . A scowl of surprise formed around her light eyes . " I didn't see that before ! " Someone had written across ...
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... frowned . " Are you all right , Doctor ? " He had grabbed the edge of the table . He smiled again . “ Perhaps I depleted your store a little too much . " He rose to his full height and stepped unsteadily from the table . In the living ...
... frowned . " Are you all right , Doctor ? " He had grabbed the edge of the table . He smiled again . “ Perhaps I depleted your store a little too much . " He rose to his full height and stepped unsteadily from the table . In the living ...
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