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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... looked smaller because of the dozens of curious objects standing around the floor and mounted one above the other on the walls . A brass doorknob ; a shattered door ; a straight - backed chair whose arms were bound with a velvet rope to ...
... looked smaller because of the dozens of curious objects standing around the floor and mounted one above the other on the walls . A brass doorknob ; a shattered door ; a straight - backed chair whose arms were bound with a velvet rope to ...
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... looked to be made of shining ebony , like six enormous savages poised to at- tack . They began moving toward the hill . Splintered bushes ex- ploded upward from their bases , and the roaring swelled into a dissonant chord : the sound of ...
... looked to be made of shining ebony , like six enormous savages poised to at- tack . They began moving toward the hill . Splintered bushes ex- ploded upward from their bases , and the roaring swelled into a dissonant chord : the sound of ...
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... looked to be vague glints , odd refractions of the sunset , he now realized were photic reactions of some sort . Fairy rings of light developed deep within the eye , expanded into spoked shapes , flooded the humor , and faded - only to ...
... looked to be vague glints , odd refractions of the sunset , he now realized were photic reactions of some sort . Fairy rings of light developed deep within the eye , expanded into spoked shapes , flooded the humor , and faded - only to ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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