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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... breath , listening , and it seemed the whole world was holding its breath as well . The noises of wind and surf and insects were a faint seething ; moonlight shed a sickly white radiance through the enlaced vines overhead , and a ...
... breath , listening , and it seemed the whole world was holding its breath as well . The noises of wind and surf and insects were a faint seething ; moonlight shed a sickly white radiance through the enlaced vines overhead , and a ...
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... breath shrieking in his throat . Palmetto fronds swatted his face , vines tangled his legs . He felt no pain , only ... breath of the rank jungle air , and with it drew a breath of a world no longer his , of the girl Encarnación , of ...
... breath shrieking in his throat . Palmetto fronds swatted his face , vines tangled his legs . He felt no pain , only ... breath of the rank jungle air , and with it drew a breath of a world no longer his , of the girl Encarnación , of ...
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... Breath shrieked in my throat as I zigzagged among them , eluding their sluggish attempts to touch me . And then I was splashing through the shal- lows , past the wreckage of my plane , past those godforsaken slopes , panicked , falling ...
... Breath shrieked in my throat as I zigzagged among them , eluding their sluggish attempts to touch me . And then I was splashing through the shal- lows , past the wreckage of my plane , past those godforsaken slopes , panicked , falling ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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