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 54
... light getting in , I'll claw my hands off trying to break through and to hell with what you are . Because while you're there , I'm still a prisoner . " Then the light in the pantry flipped on . His sudden face went from the tautness of ...
... light getting in , I'll claw my hands off trying to break through and to hell with what you are . Because while you're there , I'm still a prisoner . " Then the light in the pantry flipped on . His sudden face went from the tautness of ...
Page 55
... light , how many would he recognize . ( When he was eighteen , he had stood in this room and examined the thin , double prong of a power - blade . The light in the room was off , and as he flicked the button on the hilt , and the sparks ...
... light , how many would he recognize . ( When he was eighteen , he had stood in this room and examined the thin , double prong of a power - blade . The light in the room was off , and as he flicked the button on the hilt , and the sparks ...
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... light . His lips rolled back from a broken tooth and the corners of his eyes crinkled like paper . The young woman ceased her moan , and even the old woman paused , groping to straighten the tin circle which dimmed and brightened in the ...
... light . His lips rolled back from a broken tooth and the corners of his eyes crinkled like paper . The young woman ceased her moan , and even the old woman paused , groping to straighten the tin circle which dimmed and brightened in the ...
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