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 5
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 the heads of the guards,
over the sea, back to the island city of Toron — Suddenly he frowned; then that ...
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 the heads of the guards,
over the sea, back to the island city of Toron — Suddenly he frowned; then that ...
Page 18
The sun was beginning to warm the air as she pushed into the shadow of the
great transit ribbon that soared between the towers. Buildings dropped bands of
shadow across the ribbon as it wound through the city, although occasional
streaks ...
The sun was beginning to warm the air as she pushed into the shadow of the
great transit ribbon that soared between the towers. Buildings dropped bands of
shadow across the ribbon as it wound through the city, although occasional
streaks ...
Page 371
"Then that spurt back and forth through the transit ribbon right at the beginning of
this whole business. But that's all." She waited while the smile she could feel him
smiling but could not see became sound and floated away under the noise of ...
"Then that spurt back and forth through the transit ribbon right at the beginning of
this whole business. But that's all." She waited while the smile she could feel him
smiling but could not see became sound and floated away under the noise of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Fall of the Towers |
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 2004 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 140003132X, 9781400031320 |
| Length | 438 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Historical / General Fiction / Science Fiction / General |
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