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 121
... edge , and the flexible metal ramp ran a dark ribbon from the ' copter to the edge of the solarium . The men that marched across had the in- signia of the royal guards . She clamped her jaws together and moved behind a nurse . She had a ...
... edge , and the flexible metal ramp ran a dark ribbon from the ' copter to the edge of the solarium . The men that marched across had the in- signia of the royal guards . She clamped her jaws together and moved behind a nurse . She had a ...
Page 165
... edge . Shrimp made a regretful sound and Curly picked up Kog's unit note . " Huh ? " asked the neanderthal . " Oh , it's not over , " Shrimp said . " That's just a first try . Now we all go again . ' " Crumpled notes landed on the box ...
... edge . Shrimp made a regretful sound and Curly picked up Kog's unit note . " Huh ? " asked the neanderthal . " Oh , it's not over , " Shrimp said . " That's just a first try . Now we all go again . ' " Crumpled notes landed on the box ...
Page 356
... edge . Jon and Alter were man - handled to its foot , and then up on the platform at the tank's rim . What hap- pened next - it happened inside Jon's mind - was a marshal- ling of dispersed bits of information , of learning and frag ...
... edge . Jon and Alter were man - handled to its foot , and then up on the platform at the tank's rim . What hap- pened next - it happened inside Jon's mind - was a marshal- ling of dispersed bits of information , of learning and frag ...
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