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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... theremin halted abruptly , then plunged into the soaring theme of the Victory Anthem . " Come up to my suite immediately , ” whispered the Duch- ess to Jon . " There's something I wanted you to see before this . Now it's imperative ...
... theremin halted abruptly , then plunged into the soaring theme of the Victory Anthem . " Come up to my suite immediately , ” whispered the Duch- ess to Jon . " There's something I wanted you to see before this . Now it's imperative ...
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... theremin , opened the ball with the familiar anthems of Toromon . " Mr. Quelor Da and party , " nounced the loud - speaker . Jon glanced at the entrance as the brightly dressed figures , miniatured by the distance of the palace ballroom ...
... theremin , opened the ball with the familiar anthems of Toromon . " Mr. Quelor Da and party , " nounced the loud - speaker . Jon glanced at the entrance as the brightly dressed figures , miniatured by the distance of the palace ballroom ...
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Samuel R. Delany. ceased sounding and the theremin squacked . A moment later thunderous rumbling replaced the music , growing , then fading , as darkness filled the high , coffin - shaped windows once more . Jon was the first to run ...
Samuel R. Delany. ceased sounding and the theremin squacked . A moment later thunderous rumbling replaced the music , growing , then fading , as darkness filled the high , coffin - shaped windows once more . Jon was the first to run ...
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