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 104
... stopped . It had too much to do with the recognition of luck , and the impos- sibility of the whole situation . The boy laughed . He startled himself with the sound , and after a few seconds stopped . Then he turned . Quorl stood behind ...
... stopped . It had too much to do with the recognition of luck , and the impos- sibility of the whole situation . The boy laughed . He startled himself with the sound , and after a few seconds stopped . Then he turned . Quorl stood behind ...
Page 153
... stopped their expansion inland and the hot currents out from shore did the same . But when they were stopped , they decided that organized government could accomplish more efficiently what piracy had accomplished up till then . There's ...
... stopped their expansion inland and the hot currents out from shore did the same . But when they were stopped , they decided that organized government could accomplish more efficiently what piracy had accomplished up till then . There's ...
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... stopped the flup - flap stopped too and chuckled . “ Oh , the hell with you , " Tel said and turned around . He walked maybe a half a dozen long strides through the thicker mud before he slowed down and a frown deepened into his face ...
... stopped the flup - flap stopped too and chuckled . “ Oh , the hell with you , " Tel said and turned around . He walked maybe a half a dozen long strides through the thicker mud before he slowed down and a frown deepened into his face ...
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