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 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 , swatting ...
Lucius Shepard. SALVADOR HREE WEEKS BEFORE they 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 , swatting ...
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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 ...
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... Tecolutla had been a kind of mad whirling dance through the streets , spraying erratic bursts that appeared to be writing weird names on the walls . The leader of the Sandinistas had worn a mask - a gray face with a surprised hole of a ...
... Tecolutla had been a kind of mad whirling dance through the streets , spraying erratic bursts that appeared to be writing weird names on the walls . The leader of the Sandinistas had worn a mask - a gray face with a surprised hole 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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