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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... Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw in my rag right now From around the box Shrimp kicked him and Curly's hand which had started leisurely ...
... Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw in my rag right now From around the box Shrimp kicked him and Curly's hand which had started leisurely ...
Page 254
... Curly said . " So look at my hands ! " Tel gazed at the soldier's cupped palms . They began to glow . They were bluish at first through the fog , but then the blue became red , a red fire flickering in his hands , a ball of red fire ...
... Curly said . " So look at my hands ! " Tel gazed at the soldier's cupped palms . They began to glow . They were bluish at first through the fog , but then the blue became red , a red fire flickering in his hands , a ball of red fire ...
Page 268
... Curly , I wanted to ask you about that thing you showed me- " " Shhhh . " Curly's forefinger sprang to his lips . " Somebody might hear you talking about it . ' " I just wanted , " Tel lowered his voice , " to know how you did it ...
... Curly , I wanted to ask you about that thing you showed me- " " Shhhh . " Curly's forefinger sprang to his lips . " Somebody might hear you talking about it . ' " I just wanted , " Tel lowered his voice , " to know how you did it ...
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