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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... neanderthal who kept blinking . " New men here , " the officer said . " Watch it ! Ptorn 047 AA - F . " The shaved guard stepped forward . “ Tel 211 BQ - T . ” Tel , green- eyed and silent , stepped forward . “ Kog 019 N - H . " The ...
... neanderthal who kept blinking . " New men here , " the officer said . " Watch it ! Ptorn 047 AA - F . " The shaved guard stepped forward . “ Tel 211 BQ - T . ” Tel , green- eyed and silent , stepped forward . “ Kog 019 N - H . " The ...
Page 168
... neanderthal grinned and nodded . “ You just sit down here , " and Shrimp , his hand on Kog's shoulder , pushed him to a squat beside the crate . " Now this is the way we play - you got any money ? — you arrange the coins in a square ...
... neanderthal grinned and nodded . “ You just sit down here , " and Shrimp , his hand on Kog's shoulder , pushed him to a squat beside the crate . " Now this is the way we play - you got any money ? — you arrange the coins in a square ...
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... neanderthal stepped into the doorway . Lug blinked . " You guys are new ? " " That's right , " said Ptorn from inside . " Then come on , " the neanderthal said . “ I have to show you something . " Ptorn joined Lug and Tel as they ...
... neanderthal stepped into the doorway . Lug blinked . " You guys are new ? " " That's right , " said Ptorn from inside . " Then come on , " the neanderthal said . “ I have to show you something . " Ptorn joined Lug and Tel as they ...
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