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 109
... scream . He screamed again . Then again . The log , coming loose , tore away nearly a foot of flesh from the boy's ... screaming and turned his head a little to make the pain go away . But it wouldn't go . It wouldn't . Then the boy ...
... scream . He screamed again . Then again . The log , coming loose , tore away nearly a foot of flesh from the boy's ... screaming and turned his head a little to make the pain go away . But it wouldn't go . It wouldn't . Then the boy ...
Page 206
... scream in the thin air . The black skin parted and blue oozed over the broken limbs , darkened the sand . The scream sounded once more , then stopped as the throat caved in beneath crushing tentacles . There ... It was dark . Moist soil ...
... scream in the thin air . The black skin parted and blue oozed over the broken limbs , darkened the sand . The scream sounded once more , then stopped as the throat caved in beneath crushing tentacles . There ... It was dark . Moist soil ...
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... scream . Suddenly Vol was screaming too , and fight- ing , and their voices had lost all music and become dis- sonant and agonized . He fought , and nearly killed one of the men who held him , but there were three others around him who ...
... scream . Suddenly Vol was screaming too , and fight- ing , and their voices had lost all music and become dis- sonant and agonized . He fought , and nearly killed one of the men who held him , but there were three others around him who ...
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