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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... hand came around the edge of the cabinet , for the handle . The hand was broad , with black hairs , and sported a brass ring set with an irregular shape of blue glass . As the door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a ...
... hand came around the edge of the cabinet , for the handle . The hand was broad , with black hairs , and sported a brass ring set with an irregular shape of blue glass . As the door opened , the hand swung out of sight . There was a ...
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... hand out to him . The curves broke , his hands separated , his eyes lifted . He did not take her hand , but he said , " Clea , you say you've got to go away , and you say you don't want anyone to know where you are . I love you , and I ...
... hand out to him . The curves broke , his hands separated , his eyes lifted . He did not take her hand , but he said , " Clea , you say you've got to go away , and you say you don't want anyone to know where you are . I love you , and I ...
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... hand as she gazed down the white sand . With the sudden change in gravity , Jon nearly dropped the papers , but Alter helped him catch them up . They looked again toward the city where : Smoke fell like silver scales through the shell ...
... hand as she gazed down the white sand . With the sudden change in gravity , Jon nearly dropped the papers , but Alter helped him catch them up . They looked again toward the city where : Smoke fell like silver scales through the shell ...
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Alter asked antimatter aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier Rara remember rock Rolth scream shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought Tloto told Tomar took Toromon Toron towers transit ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice walked wall What's whispered window woman