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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... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before . . . . ... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And ...
... night table , and the copy of Delcord the Whaler which he had been reading the night before . . . . ... He'd left the ballroom and got halfway down the hall before he remembered that his room was probably not his room any longer . And ...
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... night before , watching the boy by the door . " I guess you're not used to these sort of clothes , " he said . " Once I wasn't either . Pretty soon they begin to take . " " Huh ? " said Let . Then , " Oh . ” " Is something wrong ...
... night before , watching the boy by the door . " I guess you're not used to these sort of clothes , " he said . " Once I wasn't either . Pretty soon they begin to take . " " Huh ? " said Let . Then , " Oh . ” " Is something wrong ...
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... night . As blackness washed the sky and stars stuck dia- mond - tipped pins into evening , Jon and Petra lingered at the rail . " Somewhere out there is the war . In which direc- tion ? " she asked . " Who knows ? " Jon motioned towards ...
... night . As blackness washed the sky and stars stuck dia- mond - tipped pins into evening , Jon and Petra lingered at the rail . " Somewhere out there is the war . In which direc- tion ? " she asked . " Who knows ? " Jon motioned towards ...
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