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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Lucius Shepard. Salvador hree weeks before they Thre wasted Tecolutla , Dantzler had his baptism of fire . The platoon was crossing a meadow at the foot of an emerald - green volcano , and being a dreamy sort , he was idling along ...
Lucius Shepard. Salvador hree weeks before they Thre wasted Tecolutla , Dantzler had his baptism of fire . The platoon was crossing a meadow at the foot of an emerald - green volcano , and being a dreamy sort , he was idling along ...
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... Tecolutla , where a Sandinista patrol had recently been spotted , and following that they were to join up with the First Infantry and take part in the offensive against León , a provincial capital just across the Nicaraguan border . As ...
... Tecolutla , where a Sandinista patrol had recently been spotted , and following that they were to join up with the First Infantry and take part in the offensive against León , a provincial capital just across the Nicaraguan border . As ...
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... Tecolutla was a village of whitewashed stone tucked into a notch between two hills . From above , the houses - with their shadow - blackened windows and doorways - looked like an unlucky throw of dice . The streets ran uphill and down ...
... Tecolutla was a village of whitewashed stone tucked into a notch between two hills . From above , the houses - with their shadow - blackened windows and doorways - looked like an unlucky throw of dice . The streets ran uphill and down ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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