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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... woman woke , she was delighted . She hurried back to her vil- lage to tell her family , and on the way she met a friend , a woman , who was going to market . This woman had four goiters . The first woman told her what had happened , and ...
... woman woke , she was delighted . She hurried back to her vil- lage to tell her family , and on the way she met a friend , a woman , who was going to market . This woman had four goiters . The first woman told her what had happened , and ...
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... woman stood facing it a few feet away . It was such an uncanny scene , this confrontation of fire and darkness , of two supernatural systems , that Eliot was shocked to alertness . He had the idea that neither of them knew what to do ...
... woman stood facing it a few feet away . It was such an uncanny scene , this confrontation of fire and darkness , of two supernatural systems , that Eliot was shocked to alertness . He had the idea that neither of them knew what to do ...
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... woman's amplified voice cried out , " LA MARIPOSA ! " Excited squeals from the crowd . Again the woman cried out , " EL CUCHILLO ! " The two words she had called - the butterfly and the knife - intrigued Mingolla , and he peered over ...
... woman's amplified voice cried out , " LA MARIPOSA ! " Excited squeals from the crowd . Again the woman cried out , " EL CUCHILLO ! " The two words she had called - the butterfly and the knife - intrigued Mingolla , and he peered over ...
Contents
THE NIGHT OF WHITE BHAIRAB | 29 |
SALVADOR | 64 |
HOW THE WIND SPOKE AT MADAKET | 82 |
Copyright | |
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