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 164
... green eyes , and an unusually squat neanderthal who kept blinking . " New men here , " the officer said . “ Watch it ! Ptorn 047 AA - F . " The shaved guard stepped forward . " Tel 211 BQ -T . " Tel , green - eyed and silent , stepped ...
... green eyes , and an unusually squat neanderthal who kept blinking . " New men here , " the officer said . “ Watch it ! Ptorn 047 AA - F . " The shaved guard stepped forward . " Tel 211 BQ -T . " Tel , green - eyed and silent , stepped ...
Page 199
... green and not that bright . He had glimpsed mist , and sharp plants without leaves , and mud was bubbling some- place . No. That was in the front of the room where he had his classes . Or was it someplace else , with the strange machine ...
... green and not that bright . He had glimpsed mist , and sharp plants without leaves , and mud was bubbling some- place . No. That was in the front of the room where he had his classes . Or was it someplace else , with the strange machine ...
Page 250
... green , " Tel said . Something was turning inside him , like a smoky crystal full of memories he could not see . " My eyes are green . " " Of course his eyes are green , " Shrimp said . “ What other colour would the eyes of a fisherman ...
... green , " Tel said . Something was turning inside him , like a smoky crystal full of memories he could not see . " My eyes are green . " " Of course his eyes are green , " Shrimp said . “ What other colour would the eyes of a fisherman ...
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