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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... caught . And killed . " " Huh ? " said Let . " Is that all ? ” " That's about it , " said Petra . " What do you mean ? " Let demanded . Last night's version had contained detail upon detail of the prisoners ' treatment , their efforts ...
... caught . And killed . " " Huh ? " said Let . " Is that all ? ” " That's about it , " said Petra . " What do you mean ? " Let demanded . Last night's version had contained detail upon detail of the prisoners ' treatment , their efforts ...
Page 108
... caught in the spring trap and who had bled to death after gnawing off both hind legs . But each movement he made , each thought was a blurred green haze of pain . He raised himself up and looked back . Then he lay down again and closed ...
... caught in the spring trap and who had bled to death after gnawing off both hind legs . But each movement he made , each thought was a blurred green haze of pain . He raised himself up and looked back . Then he lay down again and closed ...
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... caught the thirty - year - old memory that spun in his mind of the time that a clothing industry that he had been vice co - ordinator of had burned down , and realized his rage at the lax enforcement of fire regu- lations ; A man who ...
... caught the thirty - year - old memory that spun in his mind of the time that a clothing industry that he had been vice co - ordinator of had burned down , and realized his rage at the lax enforcement of fire regu- lations ; A man who ...
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