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 165
... fingers squared the coins . Shrimp and Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw in my rag right now From around the box Shrimp kicked him and ...
... fingers squared the coins . Shrimp and Curly exchanged worried looks . " Money , " Ptorn said and put a unit note beside the coins . ยท " Curly said , " I think I'll throw in my rag right now From around the box Shrimp kicked him and ...
Page 172
... fingers while he waits , trying not to think of the pain in his leg . He feels very old . Beside him is the heavy one . The texture of his mind is like iron and mercury . He is very conscious of his body , and as he crouches , he is ...
... fingers while he waits , trying not to think of the pain in his leg . He feels very old . Beside him is the heavy one . The texture of his mind is like iron and mercury . He is very conscious of his body , and as he crouches , he is ...
Page 347
... fingers holding her , but her hands were still free below the elbow . Her left hand grabbed at her right elbow joint , hold- ing to it as if it were in pain - or pain remembered . Jon said , " My lord , that's the Queen Mother . That's ...
... fingers holding her , but her hands were still free below the elbow . Her left hand grabbed at her right elbow joint , hold- ing to it as if it were in pain - or pain remembered . Jon said , " My lord , that's the Queen Mother . That's ...
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