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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... beach toward the jungle . By the set of its ears and the pur- poseful sway of its walk , Esteban recognized that it was hunt- ing . It stopped beneath a palm about twenty feet from the house , lifted its head , and tested the air ...
... beach toward the jungle . By the set of its ears and the pur- poseful sway of its walk , Esteban recognized that it was hunt- ing . It stopped beneath a palm about twenty feet from the house , lifted its head , and tested the air ...
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... beach house , bought a supply of notebooks , and began to fill them with page after page of attempted poetry . Though I had insinuated myself into the group , I was not immediately accepted . My adolescence showed plainly against the ...
... beach house , bought a supply of notebooks , and began to fill them with page after page of attempted poetry . Though I had insinuated myself into the group , I was not immediately accepted . My adolescence showed plainly against the ...
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... beach , with Nina Simone's bluesy whisper issuing from a window of one of the houses , gray waves slopping at our feet . As if pressed together by the vast emptiness around us , we kissed . Anne clawed my back and ground herself against ...
... beach , with Nina Simone's bluesy whisper issuing from a window of one of the houses , gray waves slopping at our feet . As if pressed together by the vast emptiness around us , we kissed . Anne clawed my back and ground herself against ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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