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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... guys all over the place . They'd told us this particular capture was going to be easy as cutting a kharba melon . They'd told us there probably wouldn't be a shot fired . Well , I didn't want to end up like one of those gutted corpses ...
... guys all over the place . They'd told us this particular capture was going to be easy as cutting a kharba melon . They'd told us there probably wouldn't be a shot fired . Well , I didn't want to end up like one of those gutted corpses ...
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... guys joking with it back in the mines . " " Oh ! Well , once upon a time there were three mali gangs . " " Spill on , " Jon said . " The people in these gangs are a funny bunch : lots of guys who were too messed up even to get into the ...
... guys joking with it back in the mines . " " Oh ! Well , once upon a time there were three mali gangs . " " Spill on , " Jon said . " The people in these gangs are a funny bunch : lots of guys who were too messed up even to get into the ...
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... guy's jaw loose , said , ' What the hell did you think you were doing , anyway ? ' and the guy grinned and said , ' I was going out to look for Koshar . ' That's when it began . Suddenly everybody was talking about Koshar . All sorts of ...
... guy's jaw loose , said , ' What the hell did you think you were doing , anyway ? ' and the guy grinned and said , ' I was going out to look for Koshar . ' That's when it began . Suddenly everybody was talking about Koshar . All sorts of ...
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