The Jaguar HunterFourteen of Lucius Shepard's most memorable stories are combined with a previously unanthologized novella, Radiant Green Star, to form a stunning sci-fi collection. In the Nebula Award-winning title story, a poor Honduran hunter is coerced into tracking the forbidden black jaguar of Barrio Carolina. |
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... magical . If there was magic in the world — and he knew there was - you could only approach it by abandoning the constraints of logic and lessons learned . For more than a year he had forgotten this and had constructed defenses against ...
... magical . If there was magic in the world — and he knew there was - you could only approach it by abandoning the constraints of logic and lessons learned . For more than a year he had forgotten this and had constructed defenses against ...
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... magic wouldn't cure . I'd be glad to make you a gift if you got no objections . ' I said to myself , ' Oh - oh , here it comes . ' But I reckoned it couldn't do me no harm to let him play his hand , and I told him to go ahead . So he ...
... magic wouldn't cure . I'd be glad to make you a gift if you got no objections . ' I said to myself , ' Oh - oh , here it comes . ' But I reckoned it couldn't do me no harm to let him play his hand , and I told him to go ahead . So he ...
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... magic , " said Dowdy . " You see , all the old tales of wizards and great beasts and warriors and undyin ' kings , they aren't fantasy or even fragments of a distant past . They're visions , the first unclear glimpses seen long ago of a ...
... magic , " said Dowdy . " You see , all the old tales of wizards and great beasts and warriors and undyin ' kings , they aren't fantasy or even fragments of a distant past . They're visions , the first unclear glimpses seen long ago of a ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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