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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... voice trailed off . " What's your plan ? " Tel asked . There was another laugh at the bar . 99 " Somehow- " His voice was lower . " Somehow we must save something , salvage some fragment from the destruction that will come . There are ...
... voice trailed off . " What's your plan ? " Tel asked . There was another laugh at the bar . 99 " Somehow- " His voice was lower . " Somehow we must save something , salvage some fragment from the destruction that will come . There are ...
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... voice . “ And now would you please explain it to me ? It's not every day that I'm called on to declare war . I think I did it rather eloquently . Now tell me why . " ( Jon remembered the trick of acoustics which as a child enabled him ...
... voice . “ And now would you please explain it to me ? It's not every day that I'm called on to declare war . I think I did it rather eloquently . Now tell me why . " ( Jon remembered the trick of acoustics which as a child enabled him ...
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... voice . " All right . All right . Resume your seats in an orderly manner . Resume your seats . " Many of the soldiers had leaped from their chairs . The feminine voice continued over the loudspeaker . " Your reaction to that last ...
... voice . " All right . All right . Resume your seats in an orderly manner . Resume your seats . " Many of the soldiers had leaped from their chairs . The feminine voice continued over the loudspeaker . " Your reaction to that last ...
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Alter asked antimatter aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier Rara remember rock Rolth scream shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought Tloto told Tomar took Toromon Toron towers transit ribbon Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice walked wall What's whispered window woman