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 103
... feet down ( still a hundred feet above the water ) was a table of rock . The moon was high enough to light the entire lithic table as well as the temple at its edge . In front of the temple stood a tall man in black robes who blew on a ...
... feet down ( still a hundred feet above the water ) was a table of rock . The moon was high enough to light the entire lithic table as well as the temple at its edge . In front of the temple stood a tall man in black robes who blew on a ...
Page 268
... feet , the other , the open - toed neanderthal boots . “ That's Lug ! ” Tel said . " He must be chasing my- " The form was just visible thirty feet away and moving further off . " Where does he think he's chasing it ? " said Curly ...
... feet , the other , the open - toed neanderthal boots . “ That's Lug ! ” Tel said . " He must be chasing my- " The form was just visible thirty feet away and moving further off . " Where does he think he's chasing it ? " said Curly ...
Page 345
... feet splashed up water like flat stones . When he reached the doctor he tilted his head , blinked like a puzzled monkey , then kicked the man's feet from under him so that he flopped on to the pavement again , called out in pain and ...
... feet splashed up water like flat stones . When he reached the doctor he tilted his head , blinked like a puzzled monkey , then kicked the man's feet from under him so that he flopped on to the pavement again , called out in pain and ...
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