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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... smiled - and stepped free of the leaves and branches . From their stunted heights , they blinked at his seven - foot ... smile was subtly humorous , more subtly regret- ful . " It was time for them to come . It's simple . " For Lug it ...
... smiled - and stepped free of the leaves and branches . From their stunted heights , they blinked at his seven - foot ... smile was subtly humorous , more subtly regret- ful . " It was time for them to come . It's simple . " For Lug it ...
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... smiled rather wanly . Koshar hurried on : " I would like to present my daughter to you , for it's her party . Her name is Clea . " The old man turned to the balcony stairs , and the crowd's eyes turned with him . She was standing on the ...
... smiled rather wanly . Koshar hurried on : " I would like to present my daughter to you , for it's her party . Her name is Clea . " The old man turned to the balcony stairs , and the crowd's eyes turned with him . She was standing on the ...
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... smiled . " You must think that's very important , you who can't see what I can see , can't hear what I hear . It isn't though . " He paused . " I can sense - that's a better word than hear - about a block in every direction , at least ...
... smiled . " You must think that's very important , you who can't see what I can see , can't hear what I hear . It isn't though . " He paused . " I can sense - that's a better word than hear - about a block in every direction , at least ...
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