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 114
... paused . Then he said , " Whatever it is , war won't exor- cize it . " " Can you ? " Clea asked . Jon paused again . " Yes . I can't tell you how ; but let's say what's troubling them is a lot simpler than what's troubling us in Toromon ...
... paused . Then he said , " Whatever it is , war won't exor- cize it . " " Can you ? " Clea asked . Jon paused again . " Yes . I can't tell you how ; but let's say what's troubling them is a lot simpler than what's troubling us in Toromon ...
Page 284
... paused while he looked over the people in the room , and then sat upon the throne . Applause rippled among the participants . A man in the back of the room looked over his shoulder at another noise , louder than the clapping . It came ...
... paused while he looked over the people in the room , and then sat upon the throne . Applause rippled among the participants . A man in the back of the room looked over his shoulder at another noise , louder than the clapping . It came ...
Page 353
... paused a moment , blue eyes glowing . The yellow hair , run with paler streaks from the bleaching mainland sun , was again darken- ing to gold . " I'm alone , " he said , " Like you , Petra . But when I feel it very stongly I think ...
... paused a moment , blue eyes glowing . The yellow hair , run with paler streaks from the bleaching mainland sun , was again darken- ing to gold . " I'm alone , " he said , " Like you , Petra . But when I feel it very stongly I think ...
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