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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... Palace of Toron . " The Lord of the Flames , " said Arkor . As night closed finally between the palace towers , they turned down the deserted Avenue of the Oysture . At last they strolled under a stone arch , and Jon opened the lock ...
... Palace of Toron . " The Lord of the Flames , " said Arkor . As night closed finally between the palace towers , they turned down the deserted Avenue of the Oysture . At last they strolled under a stone arch , and Jon opened the lock ...
Page 220
... palace , streaked with moon - silver , supported by mammoth pylons . The two hundred and twenty - five mile antenna beamed matter around the world . " I don't know , " he said . “ I wonder now if this is getting out of hand . No one ...
... palace , streaked with moon - silver , supported by mammoth pylons . The two hundred and twenty - five mile antenna beamed matter around the world . " I don't know , " he said . “ I wonder now if this is getting out of hand . No one ...
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... palace garden for the festivities to start . Clea strolled over the plots of grass cut by stone walks , set with granite benches . Multicolored canvas had been stretched over tent poles , and the circus people wandered back and forth in ...
... palace garden for the festivities to start . Clea strolled over the plots of grass cut by stone walks , set with granite benches . Multicolored canvas had been stretched over tent poles , and the circus people wandered back and forth in ...
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