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 107
... rock . There were carvings on the stone . The sun was high . The carvings represented creatures that may have been human , but were deformed , distorted , some nearly unrecog- nizable . When he looked up , he saw that the priest had ...
... rock . There were carvings on the stone . The sun was high . The carvings represented creatures that may have been human , but were deformed , distorted , some nearly unrecog- nizable . When he looked up , he saw that the priest had ...
Page 224
... rock spilled to ledges below . Fifty feet down , still a hundred feet above the water , was the largest table of rock . The sun burned white across the whole lithic expanse , and the small temple at the edge cast a sharp shadow . " The ...
... rock spilled to ledges below . Fifty feet down , still a hundred feet above the water , was the largest table of rock . The sun burned white across the whole lithic expanse , and the small temple at the edge cast a sharp shadow . " The ...
Page 252
... rock bags up ! " someone was calling . " Throw those rock bags up ! " Tel turned in time . A heavy burlap sack scraped into his palms , yanking at his shoulders . It nearly pulled him to the ground . A man on the other side was waiting ...
... rock bags up ! " someone was calling . " Throw those rock bags up ! " Tel turned in time . A heavy burlap sack scraped into his palms , yanking at his shoulders . It nearly pulled him to the ground . A man on the other side was waiting ...
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