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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... voice trailed off . " What's your plan ? " Tel asked . There was another laugh at the bar . " Somehow-- " His voice was lower . " Somehow we must save something , salvage some fragment from the destruction that will come . There are ...
... voice trailed off . " What's your plan ? " Tel asked . There was another laugh at the bar . " Somehow-- " His voice was lower . " Somehow we must save something , salvage some fragment from the destruction that will come . There are ...
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... voice , though not sad , came with a grave emo- tion Jon had not heard in his voice before : " I can't , Jon Koshar . It's another mask I can't pierce . It's easily the most familiar pattern that I see in your men's minds , almost the ...
... voice , though not sad , came with a grave emo- tion Jon had not heard in his voice before : " I can't , Jon Koshar . It's another mask I can't pierce . It's easily the most familiar pattern that I see in your men's minds , almost the ...
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... voice . " What's with that big yellow - eyed guard ? " " You mean Quorl , the Scout ? " the voice came back . " Yeah , the one who put up the sign - post . " " How do you mean ' what's with ' him ? " " Well , " said Tel , " he acts sort ...
... voice . " What's with that big yellow - eyed guard ? " " You mean Quorl , the Scout ? " the voice came back . " Yeah , the one who put up the sign - post . " " How do you mean ' what's with ' him ? " " Well , " said Tel , " he acts sort ...
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