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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... girls wearing jeans and frilly blouses ; the girls were fluttering their hands and dancing to the music that issued from the cantina , and to Este- ban they seemed more alien than the creature he was to hunt . Raimundo spotted him and ...
... girls wearing jeans and frilly blouses ; the girls were fluttering their hands and dancing to the music that issued from the cantina , and to Este- ban they seemed more alien than the creature he was to hunt . Raimundo spotted him and ...
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... girls and an American boy had been fighting with water pistols , and the girls had shrieked whenever they were hit ... girl . Teenagers . Wearing jeans and polo shirts . A fourth man lay on the ground , his hands and head swathed in ...
... girls and an American boy had been fighting with water pistols , and the girls had shrieked whenever they were hit ... girl . Teenagers . Wearing jeans and polo shirts . A fourth man lay on the ground , his hands and head swathed in ...
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... girl , was sneaking up the stairs , gun at the ready . She was pretty but on the chubby side , with shiny wings of ... girl's blank expression Lisa could tell that she hadn't understood . She rummaged in the man's jacket , pulled out the ...
... girl , was sneaking up the stairs , gun at the ready . She was pretty but on the chubby side , with shiny wings of ... girl's blank expression Lisa could tell that she hadn't understood . She rummaged in the man's jacket , pulled out the ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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