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 155
... breath and bit down on it like metal . Blood puddled from both cuffs and trouser legs . Red jelly slipped away from what had been a face . Suddenly the barrel chest collapsed and the red cloth that had cov- ered flesh now sagged down ...
... breath and bit down on it like metal . Blood puddled from both cuffs and trouser legs . Red jelly slipped away from what had been a face . Suddenly the barrel chest collapsed and the red cloth that had cov- ered flesh now sagged down ...
Page 350
... breath coming in staccato gasps . " Jon - You didn't see - you didn't see her .. His arm locked around her shoulder . " I wasn't that far gone , " he said . “ I heard the last couple of minutes . ” " Talking to her , " Alter said , at ...
... breath coming in staccato gasps . " Jon - You didn't see - you didn't see her .. His arm locked around her shoulder . " I wasn't that far gone , " he said . “ I heard the last couple of minutes . ” " Talking to her , " Alter said , at ...
Page 391
... breath , as the thought wrestled with articulation- " tell me some- thing . You see , there was a plan , to stop a war . Only . . . only the people who made both the war and the plan are dead now ! Alter , you and I , we were part of ...
... breath , as the thought wrestled with articulation- " tell me some- thing . You see , there was a plan , to stop a war . Only . . . only the people who made both the war and the plan are dead now ! Alter , you and I , we were part of ...
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