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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... turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the tree and ran after the sound of the pig's crashing in the underbrush . Twenty feet later after tearing through a net ...
... turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the tree and ran after the sound of the pig's crashing in the underbrush . Twenty feet later after tearing through a net ...
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... turned around . He walked maybe a half a dozen long strides through the thicker mud before he slowed down and a frown deepened into his face . He turned right , took five steps , and stopped when a clump of leafless trees appeared ...
... turned around . He walked maybe a half a dozen long strides through the thicker mud before he slowed down and a frown deepened into his face . He turned right , took five steps , and stopped when a clump of leafless trees appeared ...
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... turned to follow him along the piers . Suddenly a group of ragged individuals appeared ahead , and one cried out : " There they are ! Look at their clothes ! " They turned and ran along the cobbles . Behind them the cry metamorphosed ...
... turned to follow him along the piers . Suddenly a group of ragged individuals appeared ahead , and one cried out : " There they are ! Look at their clothes ! " They turned and ran along the cobbles . Behind them the cry metamorphosed ...
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