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 82
... prison mine . Do you know anything about the prison beyond the forest ? " " Some , " said Let . " Well , once upon a time there were three prisoners in the mines . " They started along the hall . " They'd been there a long time , and ...
... prison mine . Do you know anything about the prison beyond the forest ? " " Some , " said Let . " Well , once upon a time there were three prisoners in the mines . " They started along the hall . " They'd been there a long time , and ...
Page 176
... prison uniform . He is conscious of the six freckles on his right cheek and the ten on his left . There is an appendectomy scar across the right side of his belly , and he thinks of that now , briefly seeing the white walls of the ...
... prison uniform . He is conscious of the six freckles on his right cheek and the ten on his left . There is an appendectomy scar across the right side of his belly , and he thinks of that now , briefly seeing the white walls of the ...
Page 321
... prison ( the sentence was life , not five years ) in which anger and humiliation and hate for the guards , for the faulty mining equipment , for hot hours under- ground with rocks scraping his hands , for the sound of tall ferns ...
... prison ( the sentence was life , not five years ) in which anger and humiliation and hate for the guards , for the faulty mining equipment , for hot hours under- ground with rocks scraping his hands , for the sound of tall ferns ...
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