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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... light — not lamplight - edged the bottom of Michaela's door , and he heard a crispy chuckling noise like a fire crackling in a hearth . The wood was warm to the touch . Eliot's hand hovered over the doorknob . His heart seemed to have ...
... light — not lamplight - edged the bottom of Michaela's door , and he heard a crispy chuckling noise like a fire crackling in a hearth . The wood was warm to the touch . Eliot's hand hovered over the doorknob . His heart seemed to have ...
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... light measurably brightened , making the gray of the houses seem gauzy and immaterial ; the holes in their sides looked real enough - black , cavernous — as if the walls and doors and windows had only been a facade concealing emptiness ...
... light measurably brightened , making the gray of the houses seem gauzy and immaterial ; the holes in their sides looked real enough - black , cavernous — as if the walls and doors and windows had only been a facade concealing emptiness ...
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... light from a split seam in the roof jiggled on his shaved skull . " Saint Cecilia ! " Prince leaned on the bar ... lights illuminating four Jimi Hendrix posters . Though of island stock , Rudy was American - born and , like Prince , a ...
... light from a split seam in the roof jiggled on his shaved skull . " Saint Cecilia ! " Prince leaned on the bar ... lights illuminating four Jimi Hendrix posters . Though of island stock , Rudy was American - born and , like Prince , a ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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