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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... loudspeaker in the front of the room suddenly announced in a friendly voice ( friendly , though oddly ambiguous as to sex , he noticed ) : " Take your seats , everyone . We are beginning your basic training . " The recruits shuffled to ...
... loudspeaker in the front of the room suddenly announced in a friendly voice ( friendly , though oddly ambiguous as to sex , he noticed ) : " Take your seats , everyone . We are beginning your basic training . " The recruits shuffled to ...
Page 201
... loudspeaker this time was definitely masculine . " You in the back there , get a move on ! Proceed quietly and quickly to your next class . " Tel left the room . Two flights up he entered a room nearly identical to the one he'd left ...
... loudspeaker this time was definitely masculine . " You in the back there , get a move on ! Proceed quietly and quickly to your next class . " Tel left the room . Two flights up he entered a room nearly identical to the one he'd left ...
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... loudspeaker's voice , " report to your assigned workshops . ' 99 Ten minutes later Tel was dismantling a machine very like the one the young soldier had been fixing in the film . He removed an oily plate , wiped it on his apron , and ...
... loudspeaker's voice , " report to your assigned workshops . ' 99 Ten minutes later Tel was dismantling a machine very like the one the young soldier had been fixing in the film . He removed an oily plate , wiped it on his apron , and ...
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