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 47
... blinked the city back into his eyes . Tears washed the broken curb , the cracked walls , the rusted window - jamb , bright and clean . " He means he's homesick , " Rara interpreted . " No , boy , " she said . " It'll never go away . But ...
... blinked the city back into his eyes . Tears washed the broken curb , the cracked walls , the rusted window - jamb , bright and clean . " He means he's homesick , " Rara interpreted . " No , boy , " she said . " It'll never go away . But ...
Page 134
... blinked . He looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , stuck on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw ...
... blinked . He looked up . There were two shadows in front of him . Then he saw the city . It was Telphar , stuck on a desert , under a double sun . As he stood up , something caught in the corner of his eye . His eyes moved , and he saw ...
Page 206
... blinked and drew back . Jon let his feelers hang still . Now the head , onyx black , raised once more and again the three eyes blinked . The lizard hissed ; needle teeth rimmed a spongy gum . It hissed again , and glowing sand swirled ...
... blinked and drew back . Jon let his feelers hang still . Now the head , onyx black , raised once more and again the three eyes blinked . The lizard hissed ; needle teeth rimmed a spongy gum . It hissed again , and glowing sand swirled ...
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