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 12
... pulled down two kharba fruits , and handed one to a boy , the other to a girl . He pulled down two more , and the leaves shook again . " No , " he said . " Let's just go to see . " He handed out the other two melons . " Share these ...
... pulled down two kharba fruits , and handed one to a boy , the other to a girl . He pulled down two more , and the leaves shook again . " No , " he said . " Let's just go to see . " He handed out the other two melons . " Share these ...
Page 28
... pulled the curtains to . And the headless , hand- less figure went to the door and out . Uske shivered and pulled the covers up again . Jon walked down the hall . Behind the door to one room that he did not enter , the Duchess of Petra ...
... pulled the curtains to . And the headless , hand- less figure went to the door and out . Uske shivered and pulled the covers up again . Jon walked down the hall . Behind the door to one room that he did not enter , the Duchess of Petra ...
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... pulled him to the ground . A man on the other side was waiting for it , and Tel tossed it on , turned back , and caught another . They were making a chain of rocks across the area . " You and you " - ( neither one was Tel , but the ...
... pulled him to the ground . A man on the other side was waiting for it , and Tel tossed it on , turned back , and caught another . They were making a chain of rocks across the area . " You and you " - ( neither one was Tel , but the ...
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