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 54
... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before . . . ... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And the ...
... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before . . . ... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And the ...
Page 70
... night , " said the guard and scratched his head . “ A girl too ? " " Looks like it , " said the guard who was escorting Alter and the Prince . " I'm taking them to be photographed . " " Sure , " answered the guard and saluted . The two ...
... night , " said the guard and scratched his head . “ A girl too ? " " Looks like it , " said the guard who was escorting Alter and the Prince . " I'm taking them to be photographed . " " Sure , " answered the guard and saluted . The two ...
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... night approached the encampment ? There was the gray afternoon , when he had met all the guys in the barracks . Then there was the night , sitting around the fire , listening to the stories the soldiers told . But how went the change ...
... night approached the encampment ? There was the gray afternoon , when he had met all the guys in the barracks . Then there was the night , sitting around the fire , listening to the stories the soldiers told . But how went the change ...
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