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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... pee - ee - ya , why don't you treat me right ? " Either he was bored or else that was the whole song . He set down the guitar and for the next hour he hardly moved , scratch- ing , looking up to the sun as if checking 304 THE JAGUAR HUNTER.
... pee - ee - ya , why don't you treat me right ? " Either he was bored or else that was the whole song . He set down the guitar and for the next hour he hardly moved , scratch- ing , looking up to the sun as if checking 304 THE JAGUAR HUNTER.
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... moved to another part of the valley . He tried to see me on many occasions , but I always refused . Though I was greatly tempted , my guilt was greater . Four years later , after Jarcke died - crushed by a runaway wagon - one of her ...
... moved to another part of the valley . He tried to see me on many occasions , but I always refused . Though I was greatly tempted , my guilt was greater . Four years later , after Jarcke died - crushed by a runaway wagon - one of her ...
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... moved after him . And how it moved ! It was as if it were turning sideways and vanishing , repeating the process over and over , and doing this so rapidly that it seemed to be strobing , winking in and out of exis- tence , each wink ...
... moved after him . And how it moved ! It was as if it were turning sideways and vanishing , repeating the process over and over , and doing this so rapidly that it seemed to be strobing , winking in and out of exis- tence , each wink ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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