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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... magical creature to permit him to embrace as joys the tele- vision and trips to the movies and a stucco house in ... magic and a furthering of the unmagical doctrines that had corrupted Puerto Morada . He laughed again , but a second ...
... magical creature to permit him to embrace as joys the tele- vision and trips to the movies and a stucco house in ... magic and a furthering of the unmagical doctrines that had corrupted Puerto Morada . He laughed again , but a second ...
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... magic wouldn't cure . I'd be glad to make you a gift if you got no objections . ' I said to myself , ' Oh - oh , here it comes . ' But I reckoned it couldn't do me no harm to let him play his hand , and I told him to go ahead . So he ...
... magic wouldn't cure . I'd be glad to make you a gift if you got no objections . ' I said to myself , ' Oh - oh , here it comes . ' But I reckoned it couldn't do me no harm to let him play his hand , and I told him to go ahead . So he ...
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... magic is bein ' able to see clear . " Richard snorted . " You read our names off the passenger manifest for the launch . ” " I don't blame you for thinkin ' that , " said Dowdy . " It's hard to accept the existence of magic . But that ...
... magic is bein ' able to see clear . " Richard snorted . " You read our names off the passenger manifest for the launch . ” " I don't blame you for thinkin ' that , " said Dowdy . " It's hard to accept the existence of magic . But that ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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