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Fall of the Towers
  
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Fall of the Towers (Paperback)

by Samuel R. Delany (Author)
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1.0 out of 5 stars nadir, April 11 2004
By ,daveid,david (ALAMO USA,) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fall of the Towers (Paperback)
incomprehensionable fools rush for illiterate lame[ARE WE SERIOUS HERE] POORLY executed dismal gives me the tremors Juvenile delerious DROLL hack work of the ponderouslt ripe part flash gordon GEE WHIZZ, part detention attention deficit scrawl CRAWL through one empty sugar coated CYFER /DISCIFER YOWL how BAD NITEMARE MEGA INNANE metaphoors PHOEY, bologna post haunt ART THAT DONT ILLUMINATE,hack hack work pulp weary.. ive read better MUCH BADDEER BEING BETTER fools fluff than this artificial banter.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing. Proves Oscar Wilde Wrong., Mar 9 2004
By A. Horbinski (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fall of the Towers (Paperback)
Those who come to a Delany novel with preconceived notions inevitably will be disappointed, turning away in disgust and incomprehension, but those who approach his books with an open mind will invariably rewarded. In this brilliant early novel, composed in three parts, Delany examines a society on the verge of change and revolution through the eyes of a collection of laser-etched characters whose lives intersect in complicated and subtle ways. Delany's intelligence at 21 was fierce, and one of the beauties of this novel is the way it intertwines the intellectual and the everyday, how it is beautifully written and fiercely opinionated.

Though the action nominally concerns two gestalt beings from another universe, and their interactions with the empire of Toromon on Earth, Delany's true concern is human society in general, ours in particular, its cyclical fate and all-renewing possibility. It's not your typical science fiction. It's a thousand times better, science fiction idealized, then actualized.

I stayed up late to get to the end of the third volume, "City of a Thousand Suns," and closed the book with one word: "Amazing." Even more amazing, I truly meant it. Oscar Wilde famously said that anyone who seeks to write a novel in three parts knows nothing of Art and Life. Here, Delany gloriously proves him wrong.

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