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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... suddenly there had been no reason to fear further . He tried to untangle the recollection . He had entered the city , found the sending stage of the transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over ...
... suddenly there had been no reason to fear further . He tried to untangle the recollection . He had entered the city , found the sending stage of the transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over ...
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... Suddenly the green detector light flashed in the half darkness of the cabin . The generator ! The radiation ... suddenly rushed in cold behind him . There was a hell of a lot of noise and the needle quietly swung .. He was going down ...
... Suddenly the green detector light flashed in the half darkness of the cabin . The generator ! The radiation ... suddenly rushed in cold behind him . There was a hell of a lot of noise and the needle quietly swung .. He was going down ...
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... suddenly he was at the edge of the clearing . An elderly man in a bright red suit was lurching across the floor , his hands against his eyes . Behind him a scarlet cape billowed , sagged about his ankles , then billowed once more as he ...
... suddenly he was at the edge of the clearing . An elderly man in a bright red suit was lurching across the floor , his hands against his eyes . Behind him a scarlet cape billowed , sagged about his ankles , then billowed once more as he ...
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