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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... jungle , and only sections of those four re- mained visible , embedded like moldering gates in a blackish green wall of vegetation . Even under the bright sunlight , they were haunted - looking : their screens ripped , boards weathered ...
... jungle , and only sections of those four re- mained visible , embedded like moldering gates in a blackish green wall of vegetation . Even under the bright sunlight , they were haunted - looking : their screens ripped , boards weathered ...
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... jungle , favoring its right foreleg . Excited by their success , the soldiers ran a few paces after it and stopped to fire again . Carlito dropped to one knee , taking careful aim . " No ! " shouted Esteban , and as he hurled his ...
... jungle , favoring its right foreleg . Excited by their success , the soldiers ran a few paces after it and stopped to fire again . Carlito dropped to one knee , taking careful aim . " No ! " shouted Esteban , and as he hurled his ...
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... jungle . . . whatever . But when you enter them , you find you've entered the spirit world , the world of Sukias . " " What's Sukias ? " asked Moody . " Magicians . " A twig snapped behind Dantzler , and he spun around , twitching off ...
... jungle . . . whatever . But when you enter them , you find you've entered the spirit world , the world of Sukias . " " What's Sukias ? " asked Moody . " Magicians . " A twig snapped behind Dantzler , and he spun around , twitching off ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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