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
... nodded . " You just sit down here , " and Shrimp , his hand on Kog's shoulder , pushed him to a squat beside the crate . " Now this is the way we play- you got any money ? -you arrange the coins in a square , four by four , but with one ...
... nodded . " You just sit down here , " and Shrimp , his hand on Kog's shoulder , pushed him to a squat beside the crate . " Now this is the way we play- you got any money ? -you arrange the coins in a square , four by four , but with one ...
Page 188
... nodded . “ I just train seals , honey , so don't hassle . " Just then the waitress slipped a plate of fillet and scram- bled eggs , with butter streaming through the yellow hills , down to the white crock plate . Clea picked up the fork ...
... nodded . “ I just train seals , honey , so don't hassle . " Just then the waitress slipped a plate of fillet and scram- bled eggs , with butter streaming through the yellow hills , down to the white crock plate . Clea picked up the fork ...
Page 341
... nodded shortly to her over his shoul- der . Petra intercepted them from another window . " Jon ! " Reaching him , she caught his arm . " You saw that ! " She shook her head , like a confused beast , red hair leaping side- ways ...
... nodded shortly to her over his shoul- der . Petra intercepted them from another window . " Jon ! " Reaching him , she caught his arm . " You saw that ! " She shook her head , like a confused beast , red hair leaping side- ways ...
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