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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... skins rather than organs with humors and capillaries . Breath shrieked in my throat as I zigzagged among them ... skin : it must have been thirty feet long . Once , at a point where the Pilcomayo fell into a gorge and I was forced ...
... skins rather than organs with humors and capillaries . Breath shrieked in my throat as I zigzagged among them ... skin : it must have been thirty feet long . Once , at a point where the Pilcomayo fell into a gorge and I was forced ...
Page 350
... skin , and others were overgrown by viridian moss , and the rest were scrolled with pat- terns of lichen and algae that resembled the characters of a ser- pentine alphabet . Birds had nested in the cracks , and ferns plumed from the ...
... skin , and others were overgrown by viridian moss , and the rest were scrolled with pat- terns of lichen and algae that resembled the characters of a ser- pentine alphabet . Birds had nested in the cracks , and ferns plumed from the ...
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... skin hang- ing overhead appeared to be writhing . He realized they were out near the edge of the wing . " Where's Lise ? " " Don't worry , " said Jarcke . " You'll see her again . " She made it sound like an indictment . " Where is she ...
... skin hang- ing overhead appeared to be writhing . He realized they were out near the edge of the wing . " Where's Lise ? " " Don't worry , " said Jarcke . " You'll see her again . " She made it sound like an indictment . " Where is she ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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