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 152
... mainland , or pulling their fish in over the edge of their rowboat . When the Council decided that these parties should be given , it knew what it was doing . " She ran her fingers across the mother - of - pearl inlay on the desk . " We ...
... mainland , or pulling their fish in over the edge of their rowboat . When the Council decided that these parties should be given , it knew what it was doing . " She ran her fingers across the mother - of - pearl inlay on the desk . " We ...
Page 156
... mainland beach , over the forest of lush titan palms and descendants of the oak trees of an earth five hundred years in the past , across the penal mines where men and women prisoners toiled the metal tetron from shafts sunk in the ...
... mainland beach , over the forest of lush titan palms and descendants of the oak trees of an earth five hundred years in the past , across the penal mines where men and women prisoners toiled the metal tetron from shafts sunk in the ...
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... mainland too , " said Jon . " Where did they get off ? " " Boat only makes one stop on the coast . They got off right where you'll be in a couple of hours . " They pulled up nearly an hour before sunrise . The boat would receive its ...
... mainland too , " said Jon . " Where did they get off ? " " Boat only makes one stop on the coast . They got off right where you'll be in a couple of hours . " They pulled up nearly an hour before sunrise . The boat would receive its ...
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