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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Page 83
... gray - shingled houses across the street melt from the darkness , shadowy clumps resolving into thickets of bayberry and sheep laurel , a picket line of Japanese pines beyond them . The wind had dropped and it looked as if the clouds ...
... gray - shingled houses across the street melt from the darkness , shadowy clumps resolving into thickets of bayberry and sheep laurel , a picket line of Japanese pines beyond them . The wind had dropped and it looked as if the clouds ...
Page 331
... gray marble inscribed by veins of deeper gray ; the door - a featureless rectangle of ebony - was flanked by two black wooden chairs ; the bed itself was spread with a black silk coverlet . I assumed the drapes overhanging the window to ...
... gray marble inscribed by veins of deeper gray ; the door - a featureless rectangle of ebony - was flanked by two black wooden chairs ; the bed itself was spread with a black silk coverlet . I assumed the drapes overhanging the window to ...
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... gray , blustery afternoon , a few snowflakes whirling between the drab facades of the buildings ; the windows were glinting blackly , reflecting opaque diagonals of the sky . Garbage was piled in the gutters , spilling onto the ...
... gray , blustery afternoon , a few snowflakes whirling between the drab facades of the buildings ; the windows were glinting blackly , reflecting opaque diagonals of the sky . Garbage was piled in the gutters , spilling onto the ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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