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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... thought . Then she shook the thought away . Under everything she had been think- ing of recently was her new project . It was an amazingly beautiful , subtle , and profound unified field theory . It was far neater than any she knew or ...
... thought . Then she shook the thought away . Under everything she had been think- ing of recently was her new project . It was an amazingly beautiful , subtle , and profound unified field theory . It was far neater than any she knew or ...
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... thought she'd look at again . But then I never thought I would want to look at anything again , she reflected . She went to the desk , thinking of Alter , Mr. Triton , and all the red and gold that was the circus . As she opened the ...
... thought she'd look at again . But then I never thought I would want to look at anything again , she reflected . She went to the desk , thinking of Alter , Mr. Triton , and all the red and gold that was the circus . As she opened the ...
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... thought . " When I know the answer to that one ... " Only he didn't know what he would do , and thought : Perhaps what I would do is the answer . " Remember when we were reading the poems ? " she asked . “ We were all sort of mixed up ...
... thought . " When I know the answer to that one ... " Only he didn't know what he would do , and thought : Perhaps what I would do is the answer . " Remember when we were reading the poems ? " she asked . “ We were all sort of mixed up ...
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