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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... thought . Then she shook the thought away . Under every- thing she had been thinking of recently , was her new proj- ect . It was an amazingly beautiful , subtle , and profound unified field theory . It was far neater than any she knew ...
... thought . Then she shook the thought away . Under every- thing she had been thinking of recently , was her new proj- ect . It was an amazingly beautiful , subtle , and profound unified field theory . It was far neater than any she knew ...
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... thought—- ” " And the second thing I thought was , she comes from the Pot , I come from the hub , and there's a whole set of morals and customs that keeps us apart from one another . And I thought , how do you get around all those ...
... thought—- ” " And the second thing I thought was , she comes from the Pot , I come from the hub , and there's a whole set of morals and customs that keeps us apart from one another . And I thought , how do you get around all those ...
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... thought , adding the millionth repeat to a million - fold echo . The few other telepaths in the City , as well as the non - telepathic guards , flashed on the web of dim- mer minds . But even trying to contact them was at best like ...
... thought , adding the millionth repeat to a million - fold echo . The few other telepaths in the City , as well as the non - telepathic guards , flashed on the web of dim- mer minds . But even trying to contact them was at best like ...
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