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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... Lord of the Flames , and the socio - eco - political problems of the state of Toromon , particularly of its capital , Toron . A third major subject cuts across all other levels : the question of " freedom " as raised by Jon , and its ...
... Lord of the Flames , and the socio - eco - political problems of the state of Toromon , particularly of its capital , Toron . A third major subject cuts across all other levels : the question of " freedom " as raised by Jon , and its ...
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... Lord of the Flames as a devil - spirit , however . For one thing , it would not account for his most unusual feature , learned only at the end of the trilogy : his only method of destroying people is to drive or lure them together ...
... Lord of the Flames as a devil - spirit , however . For one thing , it would not account for his most unusual feature , learned only at the end of the trilogy : his only method of destroying people is to drive or lure them together ...
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... Lord of the Flames is concentrating on Toromon so heavily is that the basic source of power is tetron , a radioactive crystal of uranium in conjunction with radioactive iodine . The fusion can only occur under atomic temperatures , as a ...
... Lord of the Flames is concentrating on Toromon so heavily is that the basic source of power is tetron , a radioactive crystal of uranium in conjunction with radioactive iodine . The fusion can only occur under atomic temperatures , as a ...
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