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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... Katmandu after his tour was up , his idea being to practice meditation , to achieve enlightenment . But it had not gone well . There was an impediment in his mind — he pictured it as a dark stone , a stone compounded of worldly ...
... Katmandu after his tour was up , his idea being to practice meditation , to achieve enlightenment . But it had not gone well . There was an impediment in his mind — he pictured it as a dark stone , a stone compounded of worldly ...
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... Katmandu Valley for the next year . It was one of Eliot's traditions to make a try for the fish , though he knew that it wasn't luck he needed . Beyond the square , the streets were narrow , running between long brick buildings three ...
... Katmandu Valley for the next year . It was one of Eliot's traditions to make a try for the fish , though he knew that it wasn't luck he needed . Beyond the square , the streets were narrow , running between long brick buildings three ...
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... Katmandu , the musicians at Sway- ambhunath . Cheerful , exotic topics . Her listlessness was such an inessential part of her that Eliot was led to chip away at it , curious to learn what lay beneath ; and the more he chipped away , the ...
... Katmandu , the musicians at Sway- ambhunath . Cheerful , exotic topics . Her listlessness was such an inessential part of her that Eliot was led to chip away at it , curious to learn what lay beneath ; and the more he chipped away , the ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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