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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... looked down . Mud streaked his foot . Sometime in the past hour he had stumbled into a . . . mud hole ? Confused , he looked around the desert , took another step . His hair fell forward once more . As he brushed it back , something ...
... looked down . Mud streaked his foot . Sometime in the past hour he had stumbled into a . . . mud hole ? Confused , he looked around the desert , took another step . His hair fell forward once more . As he brushed it back , something ...
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... looked at his hands , back and palms . " Dirty as hell , " he mumbled . " Where can I get washed up ? " He looked up . “ Sure . Why not ? " He ducked under the railing and vaulted to the floor . Once again he looked around . " So I'm ...
... looked at his hands , back and palms . " Dirty as hell , " he mumbled . " Where can I get washed up ? " He looked up . “ Sure . Why not ? " He ducked under the railing and vaulted to the floor . Once again he looked around . " So I'm ...
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... looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , rising on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw a woman ...
... looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , rising on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw a woman ...
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