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 136
... shadows , one a bit lighter than the other , lay like two inked brush strokes over the page of the desert . " But how ... shadow moved . Jon looked up at the ribbon above them and cried out . As the metal tore away , they jumped back ...
... shadows , one a bit lighter than the other , lay like two inked brush strokes over the page of the desert . " But how ... shadow moved . Jon looked up at the ribbon above them and cried out . As the metal tore away , they jumped back ...
Page 218
... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to de- tect the texture of the weave . " Do your eyes ever get ac- customed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half ...
... shadow . " Not really . " Tel ran his palm across the blanket , to de- tect the texture of the weave . " Do your eyes ever get ac- customed to all this fog ? " " No. But you do . " " How ? " " After a while you get used to being half ...
Page 285
... shadow on her stomach . Her lips were opened and her bright teeth were faintly blued by the shadow of her upper lip . She was beautiful with shadows , the long violet ones that fell over the waterfront streets where he had walked with ...
... shadow on her stomach . Her lips were opened and her bright teeth were faintly blued by the shadow of her upper lip . She was beautiful with shadows , the long violet ones that fell over the waterfront streets where he had walked with ...
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