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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... shadow , its leaves hanging limp . He had been staring for a couple of minutes when he noticed that a shadow in back of the plant was swaying ever so slightly ; he tried to make it out , and the swaying subsided . He stood . The chair ...
... shadow , its leaves hanging limp . He had been staring for a couple of minutes when he noticed that a shadow in back of the plant was swaying ever so slightly ; he tried to make it out , and the swaying subsided . He stood . The chair ...
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... shadow , the flames of her hair dancing about her head . Eliot , who had been hitting the pain - killers heavily ... shadows in the courtyard , celebrants passed in the street , and he could hear distant drums and cym- bals . He felt cut ...
... shadow , the flames of her hair dancing about her head . Eliot , who had been hitting the pain - killers heavily ... shadows in the courtyard , celebrants passed in the street , and he could hear distant drums and cym- bals . He felt cut ...
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... shadow and fired . Nearly every round must have hit , because all they'd found had been scraps of bloody , leathery ... shadows and stayed stoned and alert for eleven months . Fear , he'd learned , had its own continuum of right actions ...
... shadow and fired . Nearly every round must have hit , because all they'd found had been scraps of bloody , leathery ... shadows and stayed stoned and alert for eleven months . Fear , he'd learned , had its own continuum of right actions ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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