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 98
... walked through the forest , the last filament went , like a thread of glass under a blowtorch . The last thing to flicker out , like the fading end of the white - hot strand , was the memory of someone , somewhere , entreating him not ...
... walked through the forest , the last filament went , like a thread of glass under a blowtorch . The last thing to flicker out , like the fading end of the white - hot strand , was the memory of someone , somewhere , entreating him not ...
Page 208
... walked to the royal pier . The sun across the water snagged in the polished chains . The double mollusk shell , insignia of the Duchess of Petra , dipped and rocked in the water . A long shadow fell across the dock as Arkor appeared at ...
... walked to the royal pier . The sun across the water snagged in the polished chains . The double mollusk shell , insignia of the Duchess of Petra , dipped and rocked in the water . A long shadow fell across the dock as Arkor appeared at ...
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... 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 before him . He frowned ...
... 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 before him . He frowned ...
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