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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... jaguars . But if you do this , you will have to hunt only one jaguar . " " One that has killed eight hunters . " Esteban set down his coffee cup and stood . " It is no ordinary jaguar . " Raimundo laughed disparagingly , and Esteban ...
... jaguars . But if you do this , you will have to hunt only one jaguar . " " One that has killed eight hunters . " Esteban set down his coffee cup and stood . " It is no ordinary jaguar . " Raimundo laughed disparagingly , and Esteban ...
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... jaguar might be the solution to his problems , that by going against his father's teaching , that by killing his dreams , his Indian conception of the world , he might be able to find accord with his wife's ; he had been standing ...
... jaguar might be the solution to his problems , that by going against his father's teaching , that by killing his dreams , his Indian conception of the world , he might be able to find accord with his wife's ; he had been standing ...
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... jaguar at play , and this alone was cause for wonder ; but most of all , he wondered at the fact that here were his childhood dreams come to life . He might have been peering out onto a silvery meadow of the moon , spying on one of its ...
... jaguar at play , and this alone was cause for wonder ; but most of all , he wondered at the fact that here were his childhood dreams come to life . He might have been peering out onto a silvery meadow of the moon , spying on one of its ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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