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 196
... wall , his legs at insane angles is a grinning soldier . His eyes are dark holes . An insect scurries over his lip and down his chin . The camera moves on past a wall composed of burlap gravel sacks . Through the thickening mist Tel ...
... wall , his legs at insane angles is a grinning soldier . His eyes are dark holes . An insect scurries over his lip and down his chin . The camera moves on past a wall composed of burlap gravel sacks . Through the thickening mist Tel ...
Page 230
... wall , ' he said . " There's a nest here , and here . So they can hit us along the wall pretty hard . But re- member , it's only two encampments . If you make a bee line fifteen degrees off twelve o'clock , you'll bypass both of them ...
... wall , ' he said . " There's a nest here , and here . So they can hit us along the wall pretty hard . But re- member , it's only two encampments . If you make a bee line fifteen degrees off twelve o'clock , you'll bypass both of them ...
Page 358
... wall of the aquarium . Raye , for whatever random reason , had run to this end of the tanks to watch . When the wall exploded he had been nearly severed by a shard of glass that gleamed in his ruined . belly . Jon ran to the wagon ...
... wall of the aquarium . Raye , for whatever random reason , had run to this end of the tanks to watch . When the wall exploded he had been nearly severed by a shard of glass that gleamed in his ruined . belly . Jon ran to the wagon ...
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