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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... volcano , and being a dreamy sort , he was idling along , swatting tall grasses with his rifle barrel and thinking how it might have been a first - grader with crayons who had devised this elementary landscape of a per- fect cone rising ...
... volcano , and being a dreamy sort , he was idling along , swatting tall grasses with his rifle barrel and thinking how it might have been a first - grader with crayons who had devised this elementary landscape of a per- fect cone rising ...
Page 195
... volcanoes looked depressingly real , their slopes covered by patchy grass and scrub and stunted palms . San Augustín was situated at the base of the largest volcano , and was probably like what Panajachel had been before tour- ism ...
... volcanoes looked depressingly real , their slopes covered by patchy grass and scrub and stunted palms . San Augustín was situated at the base of the largest volcano , and was probably like what Panajachel had been before tour- ism ...
Page 197
... volcano . " Been there goin ' on four years . " " Inside the volcano ? " Lisa meant it for a joke . " Yep ! Got me a little shack back in under the lip . Hot in the summer , freezin ' in the winter , and none of the comforts of home . I ...
... volcano . " Been there goin ' on four years . " " Inside the volcano ? " Lisa meant it for a joke . " Yep ! Got me a little shack back in under the lip . Hot in the summer , freezin ' in the winter , and none of the comforts of home . I ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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