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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... beneath a palm about twenty feet from the house , lifted its head , and tested the air . Moonlight frayed down through the fronds , applying liquid gleams to its haunches ; its eyes , glinting yellow - green , were like peepholes into a ...
... beneath a palm about twenty feet from the house , lifted its head , and tested the air . Moonlight frayed down through the fronds , applying liquid gleams to its haunches ; its eyes , glinting yellow - green , were like peepholes into a ...
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... beneath him , and blood welled from the cut . The broken fibers of the leaf were as stiff as wires . He stood , a giddy trickle of hysteria leaking up from the bottom of his soul . It was no forest , but a building of solid gold worked ...
... beneath him , and blood welled from the cut . The broken fibers of the leaf were as stiff as wires . He stood , a giddy trickle of hysteria leaking up from the bottom of his soul . It was no forest , but a building of solid gold worked ...
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... Beneath the shawl her shadowed wrinkles had the look of a pattern in tree bark , and despite her apparent frailty I could feel her presence as a chill pressure on my skin . Uneasy , I sat down on the opposite side of the pit . Her ...
... Beneath the shawl her shadowed wrinkles had the look of a pattern in tree bark , and despite her apparent frailty I could feel her presence as a chill pressure on my skin . Uneasy , I sat down on the opposite side of the pit . Her ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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