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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... looked smaller because of the dozens of curious objects standing around the floor and mounted one above the other on the walls . A brass doorknob ; a shattered door ; a straight - backed chair whose arms were bound with a velvet rope to ...
... looked smaller because of the dozens of curious objects standing around the floor and mounted one above the other on the walls . A brass doorknob ; a shattered door ; a straight - backed chair whose arms were bound with a velvet rope to ...
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... looked to be swaying . Clashing cymbals and ar- rhythmic drumming scattered Eliot's heartbeat ; the sinewy wail of oboes seemed to be graphing the fluctuations of his nerves . As he swept past Hanuman Dhoka Temple , he caught sight of ...
... looked to be swaying . Clashing cymbals and ar- rhythmic drumming scattered Eliot's heartbeat ; the sinewy wail of oboes seemed to be graphing the fluctuations of his nerves . As he swept past Hanuman Dhoka Temple , he caught sight of ...
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... looked at him . At last she shrugged free of his grasp and patted down her hair : a peculiarly feminine gesture for someone so shapeless and careworn . " I shoulda told you sooner , " she said to Weldon . “ But I was sick of you laughin ...
... looked at him . At last she shrugged free of his grasp and patted down her hair : a peculiarly feminine gesture for someone so shapeless and careworn . " I shoulda told you sooner , " she said to Weldon . “ But I was sick of you laughin ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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