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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... Mengele was delighted and asked me to supply more descriptive details , as if he planned to add the event to his file . " But your servant , " I asked . " What of him ? ” " Merely a decoration , " he said . " A creature of my design ...
... Mengele was delighted and asked me to supply more descriptive details , as if he planned to add the event to his file . " But your servant , " I asked . " What of him ? ” " Merely a decoration , " he said . " A creature of my design ...
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... Mengele . " " Then it is proof ! " I said excitedly . " Don't you see ? He may have altered it , but this proves ... Mengele's description of the village . " . . . what you see here , the villagers , the house , everything , is a ...
... Mengele . " " Then it is proof ! " I said excitedly . " Don't you see ? He may have altered it , but this proves ... Mengele's description of the village . " . . . what you see here , the villagers , the house , everything , is a ...
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... Mengele's principle , though I had not dissolved in it or let it rule me , I had acknowledged it and sensed its ... Mengele's name - the sullen , unmusical timbre of a deadened bell . The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule O ther than ...
... Mengele's principle , though I had not dissolved in it or let it rule me , I had acknowledged it and sensed its ... Mengele's name - the sullen , unmusical timbre of a deadened bell . The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule O ther than ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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