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 204
... Arkor said . " But in front of the military min- istry a policeman is standing , waiting for his platoon and darkness . They are going to make a raid on a bar in the Devil's Pot where a mali gang is supposed to hang out . " Now they ...
... Arkor said . " But in front of the military min- istry a policeman is standing , waiting for his platoon and darkness . They are going to make a raid on a bar in the Devil's Pot where a mali gang is supposed to hang out . " Now they ...
Page 401
... Arkor took in at a glance . The pattern of the mind leaped through the room and quivered hungrily before him ; Arkor pulled back . Hurt , injury , the long cords of pain shaking and disonant . A circuit of careful parts and patterning ...
... Arkor took in at a glance . The pattern of the mind leaped through the room and quivered hungrily before him ; Arkor pulled back . Hurt , injury , the long cords of pain shaking and disonant . A circuit of careful parts and patterning ...
Page 405
... Arkor said . Evening burnished the crusted plain . Telphar was behind them . " Stop it , " Arkor said . " You're going to die . " • " Nonik shook his head hard once ; then he began to laugh , till the laugh faded into a whisper : .. die ...
... Arkor said . Evening burnished the crusted plain . Telphar was behind them . " Stop it , " Arkor said . " You're going to die . " • " Nonik shook his head hard once ; then he began to laugh , till the laugh faded into a whisper : .. die ...
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