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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... island - the stories , the musical cadences of island speech , the sea - grape trees with their funny round leathery leaves , and the glowing , many - colored sea . He'd seen that the island operated along an ingenious and flexible ...
... island - the stories , the musical cadences of island speech , the sea - grape trees with their funny round leathery leaves , and the glowing , many - colored sea . He'd seen that the island operated along an ingenious and flexible ...
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... island after four months of such conversations , I was surprised to find that I missed him . Islands are places of mystery . Washed by the greater mysteries of wind and sea , swept over by tides of human event , they accumu- late eerie ...
... island after four months of such conversations , I was surprised to find that I missed him . Islands are places of mystery . Washed by the greater mysteries of wind and sea , swept over by tides of human event , they accumu- late eerie ...
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... island on the steamship lines and had gained a measure of sophistication . Still he credited the ball with having some magical potential . " De thing made to tell fortunes even if it just a toy , " he said to me once . He did not deny ...
... island on the steamship lines and had gained a measure of sophistication . Still he credited the ball with having some magical potential . " De thing made to tell fortunes even if it just a toy , " he said to me once . He did not deny ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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