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 165
... Ptorn . His long arm reached across Tel's shoulder and his brown fingers squared the coins . Shrimp and Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw ...
... Ptorn . His long arm reached across Tel's shoulder and his brown fingers squared the coins . Shrimp and Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw ...
Page 195
... Ptorn ) : " What did you big boys learn about today ? " Ptorn : " Not enough to talk about now . We've got to be up at six tomorrow . We have an enemy beyond the bar- rier , remember ? " Shrimp : " Yeah , I remember . G'night . " Ptorn ...
... Ptorn ) : " What did you big boys learn about today ? " Ptorn : " Not enough to talk about now . We've got to be up at six tomorrow . We have an enemy beyond the bar- rier , remember ? " Shrimp : " Yeah , I remember . G'night . " Ptorn ...
Page 263
... Ptorn laughed . " You know , I've been thinking . I've been thinking about it a long time , too . ' " " About what ? " asked the guard . " About the Scout . " " You and a lot of other people , " Ptorn said , gesturing back to where the ...
... Ptorn laughed . " You know , I've been thinking . I've been thinking about it a long time , too . ' " " About what ? " asked the guard . " About the Scout . " " You and a lot of other people , " Ptorn said , gesturing back to where the ...
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