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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... fingers left wet , cool tracks on her skin , and she could feel the shape he was tracing . A mask . Widening her eyes , giving her a smile , drawing curlicues on her cheeks and forehead . She had the idea that he was tracing the ...
... fingers left wet , cool tracks on her skin , and she could feel the shape he was tracing . A mask . Widening her eyes , giving her a smile , drawing curlicues on her cheeks and forehead . She had the idea that he was tracing the ...
Page 321
... fingers in a reggae tempo and sang in a sweet , tremulous voice : " Sick of dis Yankee domination , Oh yea - aa - ay , Tired of dis exploitation ... 99 The scenario was clear - these two had encountered the drunken Mullins in a bar ...
... fingers in a reggae tempo and sang in a sweet , tremulous voice : " Sick of dis Yankee domination , Oh yea - aa - ay , Tired of dis exploitation ... 99 The scenario was clear - these two had encountered the drunken Mullins in a bar ...
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... fingers knobbly and unnaturally long— the fingers of a demon - and the nails were figured by half - moons of dead white . Startled , I looked up at him . He had almost finished setting my place , and I doubt I stared at him for more ...
... fingers knobbly and unnaturally long— the fingers of a demon - and the nails were figured by half - moons of dead white . Startled , I looked up at him . He had almost finished setting my place , and I doubt I stared at him for more ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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