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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... door and went staggering into the front room . There was a crash behind him , and turning , he had a glimpse of a huge black shape struggling to extricate itself from a moonlit tangle of vines and ripped screen . He darted into the ...
... door and went staggering into the front room . There was a crash behind him , and turning , he had a glimpse of a huge black shape struggling to extricate itself from a moonlit tangle of vines and ripped screen . He darted into the ...
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... door has been left open for those who would come after . " She waved at the ruined houses . " Barrio Carolina is the site of the door , and the jaguar is its guardian . But soon the fevers of this world will sweep over the barrio , and ...
... door has been left open for those who would come after . " She waved at the ruined houses . " Barrio Carolina is the site of the door , and the jaguar is its guardian . But soon the fevers of this world will sweep over the barrio , and ...
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... door , flapping its arms , apparently indicating that he should enter . Eliot remembered the crate . " No , thanks , " he said . A drop of sweat slid down his rib cage , and he realized that it was unusually warm next to the door . The ...
... door , flapping its arms , apparently indicating that he should enter . Eliot remembered the crate . " No , thanks , " he said . A drop of sweat slid down his rib cage , and he realized that it was unusually warm next to the door . The ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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