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 187
... Someone jumped back , a man was kicked hard in the stom- ach and rolled over the pavement . A woman screamed , cursed , and staggered with hands over her eyes . Someone broke loose from the fray , a girl - with white hair ! Clea felt ...
... Someone jumped back , a man was kicked hard in the stom- ach and rolled over the pavement . A woman screamed , cursed , and staggered with hands over her eyes . Someone broke loose from the fray , a girl - with white hair ! Clea felt ...
Page 203
... someone is setting up a square of fifteen centi - unit pieces with the corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience ...
... someone is setting up a square of fifteen centi - unit pieces with the corner missing . ( There is relieved laughter through the auditorium . " Two and six , " someone calls out . Tel laughs too . ) At some signal which the audience ...
Page 369
... someone fled down the street , someone else who must have wandered upon the scene , observed from just around the corner , at last to flee terrified at this point , some mali this time who would have fought with fists and weapons , but ...
... someone fled down the street , someone else who must have wandered upon the scene , observed from just around the corner , at last to flee terrified at this point , some mali this time who would have fought with fists and weapons , but ...
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