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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... hair ( once it had been braided with silver chain , and she had danced in a white dress with a man who had short red hair , whose shoulders were box broad , whose words were quietly wise , whose laugh was like a bear's growl , who wore ...
... hair ( once it had been braided with silver chain , and she had danced in a white dress with a man who had short red hair , whose shoulders were box broad , whose words were quietly wise , whose laugh was like a bear's growl , who wore ...
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... hair laboriously into a tight , black bun . " Braid it , " Alter said from behind her . " What ? " " Why don't you braid it . It'll take half the time and it won't look so ... " She gave a nameless little shudder . Clea let her hair ...
... hair laboriously into a tight , black bun . " Braid it , " Alter said from behind her . " What ? " " Why don't you braid it . It'll take half the time and it won't look so ... " She gave a nameless little shudder . Clea let her hair ...
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... hair which vanished as though a hanging wig had rubbed away . " Like psychotic fantasies , " the headless voice came from above the empty collar . Then his hand reached into his pocket , brought out a tiny capsule , and held it up to ...
... hair which vanished as though a hanging wig had rubbed away . " Like psychotic fantasies , " the headless voice came from above the empty collar . Then his hand reached into his pocket , brought out a tiny capsule , and held it up to ...
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