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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... story . In the latter tale , for instance , he says of the wind , " It was of nature , not of some netherworld . It was ego without thought , power without morality . " And in the novelette " A Spanish Lesson , " Shepard dares to ...
... story . In the latter tale , for instance , he says of the wind , " It was of nature , not of some netherworld . It was ego without thought , power without morality . " And in the novelette " A Spanish Lesson , " Shepard dares to ...
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... story , he couldn't shake the notion that he had become involved in some Twilight Zone irony , that the story was coming true as he wrote it . He hoped not : it wasn't going to be a very pleasant story . When the last of his nausea had ...
... story , he couldn't shake the notion that he had become involved in some Twilight Zone irony , that the story was coming true as he wrote it . He hoped not : it wasn't going to be a very pleasant story . When the last of his nausea had ...
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... story , the one story of real moment in his life ; but just then old Spurgeon James , drunk , clad in tattered shirt and shorts , the tangle of his once - white beard stained a motley color by nicotine and rum , staggered out of the bar ...
... story , the one story of real moment in his life ; but just then old Spurgeon James , drunk , clad in tattered shirt and shorts , the tangle of his once - white beard stained a motley color by nicotine and rum , staggered out of the bar ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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