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 105
... turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the tree and ran after the sound of the pig's crashing in the underbrush . Twenty feet later after tearing through a net ...
... turned from the tree and took off after Tloto . Instantly the slug man turned and was gone . The boy dropped from the tree and ran after the sound of the pig's crashing in the underbrush . Twenty feet later after tearing through a net ...
Page 204
... turned down the deserted avenue of the Oysture . At last they turned under a stone arch and Jon opened the lock with one of the old fashion keys still used in the palace . In the corridor they passed a niched statue of the late King ...
... turned down the deserted avenue of the Oysture . At last they turned under a stone arch and Jon opened the lock with one of the old fashion keys still used in the palace . In the corridor they passed a niched statue of the late King ...
Page 391
... turned her slowly around him . Nonik , bewildered , stepped back with Clea and Rolth . " I want you to tell " -each ... turned to Alter , and touched her shoulders again- “ you , because you've taught me , and I love you " -he turned to ...
... turned her slowly around him . Nonik , bewildered , stepped back with Clea and Rolth . " I want you to tell " -each ... turned to Alter , and touched her shoulders again- “ you , because you've taught me , and I love you " -he turned to ...
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