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Out of the Dead City
The Fall of the Towers #1


Samuel R. Delany
First published in Great Britain in 1968 by Sphere Books in three volumes
Copyright © Samuel Delany 1965, 1968

Reprinted as one volume in January 1971
Printed in Great Britain by C. Nicholls & Company Ltd.

Contents
• Prologue

• Chapter 1

• Chapter 2

• Chapter 3

• Chapter 4

• Chapter 5

• Chapter 6

• Chapter 7

• Chapter 8

• Chapter 9

• Chapter 10

• Chapter 11

• Chapter 12

PROLOGUE
THE green of beetle's wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire.
Lightning tore his eyes apart, struck deep inside his body. He felt his bones split and
clutched the stomach of his coveralls, doubling around what would be pain. But it was
gone. He was falling through blue smoke, cool as blown ice.

He put his hands out to catch—

Palms and knees scudded in something hot. Jon Koshar shook his head, looked up. Sand
saddled away from him. His black hair fell over his eyes again; he shook it away and sat
back on his heels.
The sky was turquoise. The horizon was too close. The sand was more like lime. He