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 113
... face flickered on to the screen and then flickered off . The face had dark hair , seemed perhaps familiar . But it was gone before she was sure she had made it out . Crossed signals from another line , she figured . Maybe a short in the ...
... face flickered on to the screen and then flickered off . The face had dark hair , seemed perhaps familiar . But it was gone before she was sure she had made it out . Crossed signals from another line , she figured . Maybe a short in the ...
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... face a fraction different from the rest . Second , there was a ten - inch coil of wire taped to the lower righthand corner . She tore loose the message coil , threaded it into the ma- chine . On the screen dots of colour became the face ...
... face a fraction different from the rest . Second , there was a ten - inch coil of wire taped to the lower righthand corner . She tore loose the message coil , threaded it into the ma- chine . On the screen dots of colour became the face ...
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... face should have been . The thumb pressed a tiny stud on one end and a fan of spray jetted out and caught the form of his skull , a transparent face , then swiftly opaque again . " But there's a solution to everything . " His face ...
... face should have been . The thumb pressed a tiny stud on one end and a fan of spray jetted out and caught the form of his skull , a transparent face , then swiftly opaque again . " But there's a solution to everything . " His face ...
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