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 22
... pulled down two kharba fruits , and handed one to a boy , the other to a girl . He pulled down two more , and the leaves shook again . " No , " he said . " Let's just go to see . " He handed out the other two melons . " Share these ...
... pulled down two kharba fruits , and handed one to a boy , the other to a girl . He pulled down two more , and the leaves shook again . " No , " he said . " Let's just go to see . " He handed out the other two melons . " Share these ...
Page 34
... pulled the sheet over his head . Now he heard several clicks and tiny brushing noises but he heard them through the fog of sleep that had washed back over him . The first sound definite enough to wake him was water against tile . He ...
... pulled the sheet over his head . Now he heard several clicks and tiny brushing noises but he heard them through the fog of sleep that had washed back over him . The first sound definite enough to wake him was water against tile . He ...
Page 120
... pulled up his goggles and sighed . Active combat . What the hell would they be combating ? The disorder , the disorganization was beginning to strike him as farcical . Though after the poi- soned fish , the farcical was no longer funny ...
... pulled up his goggles and sighed . Active combat . What the hell would they be combating ? The disorder , the disorganization was beginning to strike him as farcical . Though after the poi- soned fish , the farcical was no longer funny ...
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