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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... told her about Sam Chipley's clinic , the time the Dalai Lama had come to Katmandu , the musicians at Sway ... told his own story , he told it as a joke , a metaphor for American misconceptions of oriental pursuits . " Why don't you quit ...
... told her about Sam Chipley's clinic , the time the Dalai Lama had come to Katmandu , the musicians at Sway ... told his own story , he told it as a joke , a metaphor for American misconceptions of oriental pursuits . " Why don't you quit ...
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... told him he must do his duty . This , too , was something the pilot had been doing all along . Finally he went to the chief of the San Blas Indians , who were his mother's people . The chief told him he must accept his fate , which ...
... told him he must do his duty . This , too , was something the pilot had been doing all along . Finally he went to the chief of the San Blas Indians , who were his mother's people . The chief told him he must accept his fate , which ...
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... told me almost verba- tim the story you have told . I thought he was insane and threw him out , but before he left he thrust a paper at me , one that bore a thumbprint . That print matches yours . But it does not belong to Mengele ...
... told me almost verba- tim the story you have told . I thought he was insane and threw him out , but before he left he thrust a paper at me , one that bore a thumbprint . That print matches yours . But it does not belong to Mengele ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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