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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... sound . They turned . Another branch broke to their left . " Tloto , " Quorl called harshly . It moved closer ; the boy could hear it moving . Then he saw the tall shadow at the edge of the light . With disgust ( but without fear , the ...
... sound . They turned . Another branch broke to their left . " Tloto , " Quorl called harshly . It moved closer ; the boy could hear it moving . Then he saw the tall shadow at the edge of the light . With disgust ( but without fear , the ...
Page 104
... sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until the bark burned his palm . Suddenly the animal ...
... sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until the bark burned his palm . Suddenly the animal ...
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... sounds came again , a distinct flapping sound , irregular , stuttering ; then the chirping melody . Tel went inside the barracks pulling his shirt out of his pants . He shrugged it down his arms , and sat on the edge of his bed . The ...
... sounds came again , a distinct flapping sound , irregular , stuttering ; then the chirping melody . Tel went inside the barracks pulling his shirt out of his pants . He shrugged it down his arms , and sat on the edge of his bed . The ...
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