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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... transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over the heads of the guards ... ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand .
... transit ribbons , the band of metal that would take him back , over the jungles , over the heads of the guards ... ribbon that should have soared silver from the window of the far building , from pylon to pylon , gleaming across the sand .
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... transit ribbon that soared between the towers . Buildings dropped bands of shadow across the ribbon as it wound through the city , although occasional streaks of light from an east- ward street still made silver half - rings around it ...
... transit ribbon that soared between the towers . Buildings dropped bands of shadow across the ribbon as it wound through the city , although occasional streaks of light from an east- ward street still made silver half - rings around it ...
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... 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 the wash on the hull . " For me ...
... 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 the wash on the hull . " For me ...
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