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 102
... Tloto . The claw jumped forward , grabbed , snatched back . The boy tried to make his mouth go into a smile . But Tloto couldn't see , so it didn't matter . He turned back to the fire , and when he looked up again , Tloto was gone . As ...
... Tloto . The claw jumped forward , grabbed , snatched back . The boy tried to make his mouth go into a smile . But Tloto couldn't see , so it didn't matter . He turned back to the fire , and when he looked up again , Tloto was gone . As ...
Page 105
... Tloto coming towards his tree . A sudden urge to sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until ...
... Tloto coming towards his tree . A sudden urge to sound pushed him closer to speech ( Stay away ! Stay back ! ) than he had been since his arrival in the woods . But Tloto could not see . Tloto could not hear . His hands tightened until ...
Page 110
... Tloto ! Marble white under the blurred moon , its clubbed feet shuffled on the rock . Its blind head ducked right and left with bewilderment . As the priest raised the three pronged knife , the boy's hands went tight around the crutches ...
... Tloto ! Marble white under the blurred moon , its clubbed feet shuffled on the rock . Its blind head ducked right and left with bewilderment . As the priest raised the three pronged knife , the boy's hands went tight around the crutches ...
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