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 159
... half - extended , looking at the ... the man in the chair . He wanted to close his eyes and rub them , but what he saw was not going to go away . Half of Catham's face was transparent . Part of his skull had been replaced with a plastic ...
... half - extended , looking at the ... the man in the chair . He wanted to close his eyes and rub them , but what he saw was not going to go away . Half of Catham's face was transparent . Part of his skull had been replaced with a plastic ...
Page 168
... half a unit . That's ' cause only half my bet came in . " He placed a half - unit piece in Kog's hand . " Now . You want to try . " " Eh ... yeah . " Kog nodded . “ What do you call this ? " “ Randomax , randy , double - dice , cut ...
... half a unit . That's ' cause only half my bet came in . " He placed a half - unit piece in Kog's hand . " Now . You want to try . " " Eh ... yeah . " Kog nodded . “ What do you call this ? " “ Randomax , randy , double - dice , cut ...
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... half a dozen other people - half a dozen other brilliant people — you might be capable of falling into that sort of sentimentality . But you have a hard , resilient , supremely logical mind . You know that's not why you feel guilty ...
... half a dozen other people - half a dozen other brilliant people — you might be capable of falling into that sort of sentimentality . But you have a hard , resilient , supremely logical mind . You know that's not why you feel guilty ...
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