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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... story , he couldn't shake the notion that he had become involved in some Twilight Zone irony , that the story was coming true as he wrote it . He hoped not : it wasn't going to be a very pleasant story . When the last of his nausea had ...
... story , he couldn't shake the notion that he had become involved in some Twilight Zone irony , that the story was coming true as he wrote it . He hoped not : it wasn't going to be a very pleasant story . When the last of his nausea had ...
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... story with his cronies . No , she told herself . There weren't going to be any more stories about ol ' Sally drunk as the moon and seeing ghosts and raving about the wind . They wouldn't believe her , so let ' em think kids had done it ...
... story with his cronies . No , she told herself . There weren't going to be any more stories about ol ' Sally drunk as the moon and seeing ghosts and raving about the wind . They wouldn't believe her , so let ' em think kids had done it ...
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... story , the one story of real moment in his life ; but just then old Spurgeon James , drunk , clad in tattered shirt and shorts , the tangle of his once - white beard stained a motley color by nico- tine and rum , staggered out of the ...
... story , the one story of real moment in his life ; but just then old Spurgeon James , drunk , clad in tattered shirt and shorts , the tangle of his once - white beard stained a motley color by nico- tine and rum , staggered out of the ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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