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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... Devil's Pot . ' " Going down the hall , with the address , Jon increased his pace . His mind carried an alien mind , that had saved him from death once already . How could he be free of the ... obligation ? That couldn't be the word ...
... Devil's Pot . ' " Going down the hall , with the address , Jon increased his pace . His mind carried an alien mind , that had saved him from death once already . How could he be free of the ... obligation ? That couldn't be the word ...
Page 88
... Devil's Pot . They got there ten minutes after the report came in . " What the hell is going on ? " Clemen demanded from the head of the City Dispersal Squad . Behind the line of uniformed men , masses of people were pushing and calling ...
... Devil's Pot . They got there ten minutes after the report came in . " What the hell is going on ? " Clemen demanded from the head of the City Dispersal Squad . Behind the line of uniformed men , masses of people were pushing and calling ...
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... Devil's Pot after dark . " " It was never a particularly savoury area of the city , " replied the Duchess . " But Professor Catham , now I'm go- ing to tell you my story . It's a lot briefer than yours , and more incredible . But it's ...
... Devil's Pot after dark . " " It was never a particularly savoury area of the city , " replied the Duchess . " But Professor Catham , now I'm go- ing to tell you my story . It's a lot briefer than yours , and more incredible . But it's ...
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