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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... there's a beauty in ab- stract mathematics that shouldn't be dulled with that sort of thing . Also , maybe you'll go away , or I'll go away . That doesn't seem fair either . Tomar , have you ever had things you wanted , had them in your ...
... there's a beauty in ab- stract mathematics that shouldn't be dulled with that sort of thing . Also , maybe you'll go away , or I'll go away . That doesn't seem fair either . Tomar , have you ever had things you wanted , had them in your ...
Page 114
... there's no Devil's Pot , nor could there ever be one . Roadways wind aboveground among the taller buildings . I'm in the Palace of the Stars right now . It was a magnificent building . " The face looked right and left . " It still is ...
... there's no Devil's Pot , nor could there ever be one . Roadways wind aboveground among the taller buildings . I'm in the Palace of the Stars right now . It was a magnificent building . " The face looked right and left . " It still is ...
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... there's nothing else to do , Petra . And I want to ! That's the only reason . If there's nothing that you want to do , at least share this with me . " She was confused , and in her confusion turned to follow him along the piers ...
... there's nothing else to do , Petra . And I want to ! That's the only reason . If there's nothing that you want to do , at least share this with me . " She was confused , and in her confusion turned to follow him along the piers ...
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