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The Fall of the Towers

Samuel R. Delany

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Jan 28, 2015 J. rated it liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm taken aback by this book, to be honest. I'm not sure what to do with a book that is and at the same time isn't very Delany.
I will say, though, as an American, reading a book about "towers" falling in a post-9/11 world lends entirely new layers to the book, especially it's clear class-warfare and pragmatism-vs.-art messages.
As many have talked about, though, the "triple being" vs. The Lord Of The Flames nakedly Christian allegory is bizarre from an author who spends so much of his later caree ...more

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