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 288
... Jeof said , and stepped into the room . Three others stepped in behind him . " I see you got Kino's message . " He laughed . “ We took it away from him last night when he made his first try . " Then a repentant look superimposed itself ...
... Jeof said , and stepped into the room . Three others stepped in behind him . " I see you got Kino's message . " He laughed . “ We took it away from him last night when he made his first try . " Then a repentant look superimposed itself ...
Page 314
... Jeof was after him , and at the corner I saw him staggering down the street with no clothes on . I didn't know what Jeof had done then , but I knew Vol was hurt . I pulled him into an alley , wrapped a sack around him , and got him to ...
... Jeof was after him , and at the corner I saw him staggering down the street with no clothes on . I didn't know what Jeof had done then , but I knew Vol was hurt . I pulled him into an alley , wrapped a sack around him , and got him to ...
Page 362
... Jeof stood alone on the cobbles . The paper , stuck to the ground , ripped in the breeze and flapped up the alley . Once more he clenched his fists and let Kino's words pick their way through his mind . " I'm proud , " he mumbled , and ...
... Jeof stood alone on the cobbles . The paper , stuck to the ground , ripped in the breeze and flapped up the alley . Once more he clenched his fists and let Kino's words pick their way through his mind . " I'm proud , " he mumbled , and ...
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