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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... forest guard's fists . " Why don't you apes learn to do a passable imitation of human beings ? " the guard asked in a reasonable voice . Big pupilled eyes blinked , fists folded like cats ' paws , and the big toes sticking through the ...
... forest guard's fists . " Why don't you apes learn to do a passable imitation of human beings ? " the guard asked in a reasonable voice . Big pupilled eyes blinked , fists folded like cats ' paws , and the big toes sticking through the ...
Page 169
... forest guard and frowned . " You know when you said ' men ' just before , you made it sound like something that wasn ... forest guards . Only the ' forest ' isn't so important . " n " That's right . Sometimes you're referred to as forest ...
... forest guard and frowned . " You know when you said ' men ' just before , you made it sound like something that wasn ... forest guards . Only the ' forest ' isn't so important . " n " That's right . Sometimes you're referred to as forest ...
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... forest guards , sometimes as forest people . " " As ' guards ' we guard your penal mines at the edge of the forest and return escaped prisoners . " " Oh yes , " Tel said . " I'd forgotten . ” Again he looked over the dark buildings ...
... forest guards , sometimes as forest people . " " As ' guards ' we guard your penal mines at the edge of the forest and return escaped prisoners . " " Oh yes , " Tel said . " I'd forgotten . ” Again he looked over the dark buildings ...
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