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 210
... moved among the apartment buildings in the center ring of the city . The eastern sky was shadowed . Once they paused . " The Lord of the Flames , " Jon said . " Even you can feel it . " Jon nodded . “ Can you spot exactly where he is or ...
... moved among the apartment buildings in the center ring of the city . The eastern sky was shadowed . Once they paused . " The Lord of the Flames , " Jon said . " Even you can feel it . " Jon nodded . “ Can you spot exactly where he is or ...
Page 212
... moved through one of the spears of light , turning uncertainly and calling , " Who's there ... ? " The King ! Jon felt a twinge of recognition and moved away from the tapestries . At the same time Arkor and the Duchess stepped out of ...
... moved through one of the spears of light , turning uncertainly and calling , " Who's there ... ? " The King ! Jon felt a twinge of recognition and moved away from the tapestries . At the same time Arkor and the Duchess stepped out of ...
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... moved her fingers along the leather strands of her necklace , from the milky shell streaked with gold , to the one that was plain mother of pearl , then to the one with veins of red , and thought , “ Oh , he tried , he tried to dream ...
... moved her fingers along the leather strands of her necklace , from the milky shell streaked with gold , to the one that was plain mother of pearl , then to the one with veins of red , and thought , “ Oh , he tried , he tried to dream ...
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