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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... light - not lamplight - edged the bot- tom of Michaela's door , and he heard a crispy chuckling noise like a fire crackling in a hearth . The wood was warm to the touch . Eliot's hand hovered over the doorknob . His heart seemed to have ...
... light - not lamplight - edged the bot- tom of Michaela's door , and he heard a crispy chuckling noise like a fire crackling in a hearth . The wood was warm to the touch . Eliot's hand hovered over the doorknob . His heart seemed to have ...
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... light measurably brightened , making the gray of the houses seem gauzy and immaterial ; the holes in their sides looked real enough -black , cavernous - as if the walls and doors and windows had only been a facade concealing emptiness ...
... light measurably brightened , making the gray of the houses seem gauzy and immaterial ; the holes in their sides looked real enough -black , cavernous - as if the walls and doors and windows had only been a facade concealing emptiness ...
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... light off her port bow . Some ship's riding light . It brought a tear to her eye , making her think of home . But she wiped the tear away with the back of her hand and had another slug of cherry brandy . The cramped wheelhouse of the ...
... light off her port bow . Some ship's riding light . It brought a tear to her eye , making her think of home . But she wiped the tear away with the back of her hand and had another slug of cherry brandy . The cramped wheelhouse of the ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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