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 34
... Uske slammed the flat of his palm on the button that drew back the curtains . Sunlight filled the room like water . And standing in the last pair of footprints was a naked man . He leapt at Uske as the king threw himself face down into ...
... Uske slammed the flat of his palm on the button that drew back the curtains . Sunlight filled the room like water . And standing in the last pair of footprints was a naked man . He leapt at Uske as the king threw himself face down into ...
Page 36
... Uske . " You're crazy . " " " I might have been a little crazy then . But five years in the tetron mines has brought me pretty close to my senses . ' " You're a murderer . . . " It was in self - defence , and you know it . Those guards ...
... Uske . " You're crazy . " " " I might have been a little crazy then . But five years in the tetron mines has brought me pretty close to my senses . ' " You're a murderer . . . " It was in self - defence , and you know it . Those guards ...
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... Uske rolled over through a silken rustle , opened one eye , and thought he heard a sound . " Hey , stupid , " someone whispered . Uske reached out of bed and pressed the night light . A dim orange glow did not quite fill half the room ...
... Uske rolled over through a silken rustle , opened one eye , and thought he heard a sound . " Hey , stupid , " someone whispered . Uske reached out of bed and pressed the night light . A dim orange glow did not quite fill half the room ...
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