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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... window screen on the temple of White Bhairab lay the mask of that god . It was almost ten feet high , brass , with a ... windows of the upper stories , talking back and forth : an exotic tenement life . Small shrines — wooden enclosures ...
... window screen on the temple of White Bhairab lay the mask of that god . It was almost ten feet high , brass , with a ... windows of the upper stories , talking back and forth : an exotic tenement life . Small shrines — wooden enclosures ...
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... window frame across the picnic - style table beneath it ; the other furniture - three chewed - up wicker chairs and a sofa bunk -hunched in their dark corners . The tinder caught , and soon the fire was snapping inside the stove . Still ...
... window frame across the picnic - style table beneath it ; the other furniture - three chewed - up wicker chairs and a sofa bunk -hunched in their dark corners . The tinder caught , and soon the fire was snapping inside the stove . Still ...
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... window fired at him . The report was deafening , causing Min- golla to flinch and close his eyes . When he looked out the window again , Baylor was nowhere in sight . " Fucker's just tryin ' to draw fire , " said the man who had shot at ...
... window fired at him . The report was deafening , causing Min- golla to flinch and close his eyes . When he looked out the window again , Baylor was nowhere in sight . " Fucker's just tryin ' to draw fire , " said the man who had shot at ...
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THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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