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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... scream crossed the ballroom again . Heads turned , people crowded forward on one another , then pushed back . Jon was shoved sideways and someone put an elbow in his chest . More people screamed , backing away from what staggered over ...
... scream crossed the ballroom again . Heads turned , people crowded forward on one another , then pushed back . Jon was shoved sideways and someone put an elbow in his chest . More people screamed , backing away from what staggered over ...
Page 213
... scream in the thin air . The black skin parted and blue oozed over the broken limbs , darkened the sand . The scream sounded once more , then stopped as the the towers of toron 213.
... scream in the thin air . The black skin parted and blue oozed over the broken limbs , darkened the sand . The scream sounded once more , then stopped as the the towers of toron 213.
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... scream . Suddenly Vol was screaming too , and fighting , and their voices had lost all music and become dissonant and agonized . He fought , and nearly killed one of the men who held him , but there were three others around him who ...
... scream . Suddenly Vol was screaming too , and fighting , and their voices had lost all music and become dissonant and agonized . He fought , and nearly killed one of the men who held him , but there were three others around him who ...
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