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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... Alise . I found this confusing . Sep- arated from Alise , I felt only mild pity for her , yet her proxim- ity would drive me into a lustful frenzy . I lost interest in writing , in Spain , in everything except Alise's undernourished ...
... Alise . I found this confusing . Sep- arated from Alise , I felt only mild pity for her , yet her proxim- ity would drive me into a lustful frenzy . I lost interest in writing , in Spain , in everything except Alise's undernourished ...
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... Alise's physical state , and one passage in particular caught my eye : Alise's control of her endocrine system continues to out- pace mine . Could this simply be a product of male and female differences ? It seems likely , since we have ...
... Alise's physical state , and one passage in particular caught my eye : Alise's control of her endocrine system continues to out- pace mine . Could this simply be a product of male and female differences ? It seems likely , since we have ...
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... ( Alise told me they were infinite in number ) is but a distillation of the one adjoining , and if somewhere at the heart of this complex lies a compacted essence of a world , a blazing point of pure principle that plays cosmic Hitler to ...
... ( Alise told me they were infinite in number ) is but a distillation of the one adjoining , and if somewhere at the heart of this complex lies a compacted essence of a world , a blazing point of pure principle that plays cosmic Hitler to ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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