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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... whispered , shaking her head . “ So soon ... They're here already- " " What are they ? " " Look . " The figures moved below , glancing right and left in wonder . Now one ran to the window , grabbed a drape , and tugged till it ballooned ...
... whispered , shaking her head . “ So soon ... They're here already- " " What are they ? " " Look . " The figures moved below , glancing right and left in wonder . Now one ran to the window , grabbed a drape , and tugged till it ballooned ...
Page 386
... whispered . " They must have just escaped from the Council wing . " The three and the many faced each other over an electric moment . Then the man in the brocade drape stepped forward . " What are you doing here ? " he demanded . The ...
... whispered . " They must have just escaped from the Council wing . " The three and the many faced each other over an electric moment . Then the man in the brocade drape stepped forward . " What are you doing here ? " he demanded . The ...
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... whispered , thinking , Oh , Let , it's not for him , it's just another selfish gesture , like so many we have made , of the sort that has allowed it all to topple as it has— " But soon- " he whispered back , thinking , Don't you see ...
... whispered , thinking , Oh , Let , it's not for him , it's just another selfish gesture , like so many we have made , of the sort that has allowed it all to topple as it has— " But soon- " he whispered back , thinking , Don't you see ...
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