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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... feet to the left of the jaguar . " Wait ! " cried Esteban , pushing him down . But the rest had begun to fire , and the jaguar was hit . It leaped high as it had that first night while playing , but this time it landed in a heap ...
... feet to the left of the jaguar . " Wait ! " cried Esteban , pushing him down . But the rest had begun to fire , and the jaguar was hit . It leaped high as it had that first night while playing , but this time it landed in a heap ...
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... feet , he was borne into the temple complex . The pagoda roofs sloped up into darkness like strangely carved mountains , their peaks hidden by a moonless night ; the cobbled paths were narrow , barely ten feet across , and the crowd was ...
... feet , he was borne into the temple complex . The pagoda roofs sloped up into darkness like strangely carved mountains , their peaks hidden by a moonless night ; the cobbled paths were narrow , barely ten feet across , and the crowd was ...
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... feet were braced against a fold of the dragon's wing , and on looking up , he saw that the wing vanished beneath a mantle of earth and vegetation . He let Jarcke lower him a dozen feet more , yanked , and gazed off northward along the ...
... feet were braced against a fold of the dragon's wing , and on looking up , he saw that the wing vanished beneath a mantle of earth and vegetation . He let Jarcke lower him a dozen feet more , yanked , and gazed off northward along the ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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