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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... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything . " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking , ” Chargill smiled . “ May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
... enemy territory ? Then they can come back and tell us everything . " Uske smiled . " Of course Your Majesty is joking , ” Chargill smiled . “ May I remind Your Majesty that the radiation level in Telphar today is fatal to human beings ...
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... enemy beyond the ... Dr - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r 1 · They flung their hands over their eyes at the blinding flash that came from the blue fixtures . Before the buzzing stopped the words had leapt into his mind so clearly that at ...
... enemy beyond the ... Dr - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r 1 · They flung their hands over their eyes at the blinding flash that came from the blue fixtures . Before the buzzing stopped the words had leapt into his mind so clearly that at ...
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... enemy . Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy , great- er and more malignant than any a psychologist could cre- ate for them , always hidden behind their own terror . " They were ...
... enemy . Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy , great- er and more malignant than any a psychologist could cre- ate for them , always hidden behind their own terror . " They were ...
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Alter asked aquariums Arkor began blinked breath calliope camera dollies Catham caught Chargill Clea corner cried Curly dark Devil's Pot door Duchess edge enemy eyes face feet fingers fish Flames forest guard frowned Geryn girl green guess guys hair hand Jeof Jon asked Jon Koshar Jon's King Kino laughed light looked Lord loudspeaker mainland malis mind morning moved neanderthal night nodded once palace paused Petra prison Ptorn pulled Quorl radiation barrier random Rara rock Rolth scream shadow shook his head shoulder Shrimp shrugged side smiled someone sound stepped stood stopped street suddenly talk tank telepaths tell Telphar tetron there's theremin thing thought Tloto told Tomar Toromon Toron towers transit-ribbon triple Triton trying turned unified field theory Uske voice Vol Nonik walked wall What's whispered window woman