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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... walked down to the water and stood gazing out at the waves ; his thoughts rolled in with them , less thoughts than tidal sweeps of emotion . It was twilight by the time Miranda returned , her arms full of bananas and wild figs . She had ...
... walked down to the water and stood gazing out at the waves ; his thoughts rolled in with them , less thoughts than tidal sweeps of emotion . It was twilight by the time Miranda returned , her arms full of bananas and wild figs . She had ...
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... walked with her head down , hands thrust into her pockets as if counting the steps . " Where are you going ? " called Eliot , taken back . " I don't know . Freak Street , maybe . " " Want some company ? " She turned back at the door ...
... walked with her head down , hands thrust into her pockets as if counting the steps . " Where are you going ? " called Eliot , taken back . " I don't know . Freak Street , maybe . " " Want some company ? " She turned back at the door ...
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... walked along , I wondered for how much of it he was directly responsi- ble . Oh , he was somewhere turning out grotesques , working scientific charms , but I doubted his efforts were essential to that gray principle underlying the ...
... walked along , I wondered for how much of it he was directly responsi- ble . Oh , he was somewhere turning out grotesques , working scientific charms , but I doubted his efforts were essential to that gray principle underlying the ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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