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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... shadow from the trees brushing over her face , over the triple scar . Streaks of sun speared the yellow clouds and pried apart the billowing rifts . Shafts of yellow sank into the lusher forests of Toromon nearer the shore . The light ...
... shadow from the trees brushing over her face , over the triple scar . Streaks of sun speared the yellow clouds and pried apart the billowing rifts . Shafts of yellow sank into the lusher forests of Toromon nearer the shore . The light ...
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... shadows , one a bit lighter than the other , lay like two inked brush- strokes over the page of the desert . " But how ... shadow moved . Jon looked up at the ribbon above them and cried out . As the metal tore away , they jumped back ...
... shadows , one a bit lighter than the other , lay like two inked brush- strokes over the page of the desert . " But how ... shadow moved . Jon looked up at the ribbon above them and cried out . As the metal tore away , they jumped back ...
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... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to detect the texture of the weave . “ Do your eyes ever get accustomed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half ...
... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to detect the texture of the weave . “ Do your eyes ever get accustomed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half ...
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Alter asked antimatter aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier Rara remember rock Rolth scream shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought Tloto told Tomar took Toromon Toron towers transit ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice walked wall What's whispered window woman