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 47
... mean that Uske should be blamed . But random chance , and all the rest . . . All I mean is , it makes me want out that much more . I want to be free . I nearly got myself killed trying to escape from the mines . And a couple of people ...
... mean that Uske should be blamed . But random chance , and all the rest . . . All I mean is , it makes me want out that much more . I want to be free . I nearly got myself killed trying to escape from the mines . And a couple of people ...
Page 274
... mean . . . well , it was a stupid war poster , and I suppose . . . " Why was she so upset― " Why are you upset now ? " " I'm not I mean I just wondered how you knew I tore it — the paper , the poster - up . I was in my apartment with ...
... mean . . . well , it was a stupid war poster , and I suppose . . . " Why was she so upset― " Why are you upset now ? " " I'm not I mean I just wondered how you knew I tore it — the paper , the poster - up . I was in my apartment with ...
Page 347
... mean to call you down here . I mean . . . ” Then the embarrassments she had been mouthing for nearly a minute became real . " Oh , Dr. Wental , I just wanted to talk to somebody . I thought of a doctor first , I don't know why . But I ...
... mean to call you down here . I mean . . . ” Then the embarrassments she had been mouthing for nearly a minute became real . " Oh , Dr. Wental , I just wanted to talk to somebody . I thought of a doctor first , I don't know why . But I ...
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