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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... jeep with Sally , and you're going with Hugh . We'll drive toward Nantucket , and when we reach the dump ... you know that dirt road there that leads off into the moors ? " " The one that leads to Altar Rock ? Yeah . ” " At that point ...
... jeep with Sally , and you're going with Hugh . We'll drive toward Nantucket , and when we reach the dump ... you know that dirt road there that leads off into the moors ? " " The one that leads to Altar Rock ? Yeah . ” " At that point ...
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... jeep ; Sara helped haul him into the back , and then they were veering onto the dirt road . Peter grabbed the frame of Sara's seat , bouncing up and down . The thickets that cov- ered the moors grew close to the road , and branches ...
... jeep ; Sara helped haul him into the back , and then they were veering onto the dirt road . Peter grabbed the frame of Sara's seat , bouncing up and down . The thickets that cov- ered the moors grew close to the road , and branches ...
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... jeep was shaking , and the roar seemed to be coming from the ground beneath them , from the air , from Peter's body , as if the atoms of things were all grinding together . Frozen - faced , Sally wrangled with the gearshift . Sara ...
... jeep was shaking , and the roar seemed to be coming from the ground beneath them , from the air , from Peter's body , as if the atoms of things were all grinding together . Frozen - faced , Sally wrangled with the gearshift . Sara ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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