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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... window and looked over the lights of the city , to where the sea spread like black cloth to a moonlit horizon . The transit ribbon threaded from the palace , streaked with moon - silver , supported by mammoth pylons . The two hundred ...
... window and looked over the lights of the city , to where the sea spread like black cloth to a moonlit horizon . The transit ribbon threaded from the palace , streaked with moon - silver , supported by mammoth pylons . The two hundred ...
Page 351
... window , and once more pushed back the brocade drape . A breeze waved her blue robes . Let watched half expressions seat themselves in the strong linea- ments . " It's doubt , Let . A great and serious doubt . " " What do you doubt ...
... window , and once more pushed back the brocade drape . A breeze waved her blue robes . Let watched half expressions seat themselves in the strong linea- ments . " It's doubt , Let . A great and serious doubt . " " What do you doubt ...
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... windows once more . Jon was the first to run forward . Alter was beside him . After them , the others ran to see . Jon reached the middle window and pushed away the heavy edging . Alter's shoulder jostled against his as others rushed ...
... windows once more . Jon was the first to run forward . Alter was beside him . After them , the others ran to see . Jon reached the middle window and pushed away the heavy edging . Alter's shoulder jostled against his as others rushed ...
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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