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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... Chargill , why is it that roads have been built , prisoners reprieved , and traitors disembowelled at every hour of the afternoon and evening without anyone ex- pressing the least concern for what I thought . Now , sud- denly , at ...
... Chargill , why is it that roads have been built , prisoners reprieved , and traitors disembowelled at every hour of the afternoon and evening without anyone ex- pressing the least concern for what I thought . Now , sud- denly , at ...
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... Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit - ribbon was built , cor- rect ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the dead city of Telphar , " answered Chargill ...
... Chargill looked amazed . " Before we instituted the penal mines , and just after we annexed the forest peoples , the transit - ribbon was built , cor- rect ? Now , where does it go ? " " Into the dead city of Telphar , " answered Chargill ...
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... Chargill said . It would depend on the individual pris- oners , and what they'd done ; and of course how the people felt about it . Chargill always says you shouldn't do things too quickly-- ” " I know what Chargill says , " said the ...
... Chargill said . It would depend on the individual pris- oners , and what they'd done ; and of course how the people felt about it . Chargill always says you shouldn't do things too quickly-- ” " I know what Chargill says , " said the ...
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