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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... street . The people are trying to take it away . ” " Well , let them have it , " Clemen said . " It'll clear the streets of the mess and maybe do some good . " " You don't understand sir , " the head of Dispersal explained . “ It's been ...
... street . The people are trying to take it away . ” " Well , let them have it , " Clemen said . " It'll clear the streets of the mess and maybe do some good . " " You don't understand sir , " the head of Dispersal explained . “ It's been ...
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... street ahead of us . Then this woman and the weirdest guy you ever saw jumped out ; half his head is plastic , and you can see all the brains and things ! He runs up the street and the woman is right behind him , and he cries out ...
... street ahead of us . Then this woman and the weirdest guy you ever saw jumped out ; half his head is plastic , and you can see all the brains and things ! He runs up the street and the woman is right behind him , and he cries out ...
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... street . In one stubby hand he held a brass sphere with a stud on one end . It was a small , powerful grenade . He ... street where the mercury lights hung in shields of fog . A gate to one of the piers had been left open by accident ...
... street . In one stubby hand he held a brass sphere with a stud on one end . It was a small , powerful grenade . He ... street where the mercury lights hung in shields of fog . A gate to one of the piers had been left open by accident ...
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