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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... Shrimp . " All right . Now put your money down . Fine . Your bet ? " " Huh ? Oh . Eh ... two , and six . " Kog flipped , the coin struck the vacant corner , and two coins that were neither two nor six flew from the edge . Shrimp made a ...
... Shrimp . " All right . Now put your money down . Fine . Your bet ? " " Huh ? Oh . Eh ... two , and six . " Kog flipped , the coin struck the vacant corner , and two coins that were neither two nor six flew from the edge . Shrimp made a ...
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... Shrimp said . " But suit yourself . See you later . " As Tel went off , Shrimp started in , but Curly looked after the figure disappearing down the twilit roadway . " What are you waiting for ? " Shrimp asked . " Shrimp , what colour ...
... Shrimp said . " But suit yourself . See you later . " As Tel went off , Shrimp started in , but Curly looked after the figure disappearing down the twilit roadway . " What are you waiting for ? " Shrimp asked . " Shrimp , what colour ...
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... Shrimp and Curly peered into his eyes . Tel's heart was going like snapped fingers . " All right , " Shrimp said . " Now what colour does that look like to you ? " Curly frowned . “ I don't understand it , " he said . “ Back in basic ...
... Shrimp and Curly peered into his eyes . Tel's heart was going like snapped fingers . " All right , " Shrimp said . " Now what colour does that look like to you ? " Curly frowned . “ I don't understand it , " he said . “ Back in basic ...
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