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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... gray - shingled houses with quarterboards bearing cutesy names above their doors : names like Sea Shanty and Tooth Acres ( the vacation home of a New Jersey dentist ) . When he had arrived on Nantucket he'd been amused by the fact that ...
... gray - shingled houses with quarterboards bearing cutesy names above their doors : names like Sea Shanty and Tooth Acres ( the vacation home of a New Jersey dentist ) . When he had arrived on Nantucket he'd been amused by the fact that ...
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... gray sky - and just beyond the edge narrow tracks of water were being lashed up , as if a windy knife were slicing back and forth across it , undecided whether or not to follow them home . Hugh Weldon had been out in Madaket ...
... gray sky - and just beyond the edge narrow tracks of water were being lashed up , as if a windy knife were slicing back and forth across it , undecided whether or not to follow them home . Hugh Weldon had been out in Madaket ...
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... gray principle underlying the factory air , the principle he worshiped , whose high priest he was . He had been right . Good was eroding into evil , bright into dark , abundance into uniformity . Everywhere I went I saw that truth ...
... gray principle underlying the factory air , the principle he worshiped , whose high priest he was . He had been right . Good was eroding into evil , bright into dark , abundance into uniformity . Everywhere I went I saw that truth ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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