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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... wind ; the writing had flowed so easily that it seemed the wind was collaborating on the book , whispering in his ear and guiding his hand across the page . He flipped the pages and noticed a para- graph that was a bit too formal , that ...
... wind ; the writing had flowed so easily that it seemed the wind was collaborating on the book , whispering in his ear and guiding his hand across the page . He flipped the pages and noticed a para- graph that was a bit too formal , that ...
Page 102
... wind had sprung up . A most peculiar wind . It was moving slowly around the boat about fifty feet away , its path evi- dent by the agitation of the debris over which it passed ; it whispered and sighed , and with a sucking noise a ...
... wind had sprung up . A most peculiar wind . It was moving slowly around the boat about fifty feet away , its path evi- dent by the agitation of the debris over which it passed ; it whispered and sighed , and with a sucking noise a ...
Page 131
... wind evolved into a roar as they thickened and grew higher . And they grew swiftly . Within seconds the tops of the columns were lost in darkness . They did not have the squat , conical shapes of torna- does , nor did they twist and jab ...
... wind evolved into a roar as they thickened and grew higher . And they grew swiftly . Within seconds the tops of the columns were lost in darkness . They did not have the squat , conical shapes of torna- does , nor did they twist and jab ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
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