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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... watching the world tip and spin , until someone with arms stronger than Sara's lifted him and said , " Hey , man ! You better stop hittin ' the sauce , or I might be tempted to snake your ol ' lady . ” Streetlight angled a rectangle of ...
... watching the world tip and spin , until someone with arms stronger than Sara's lifted him and said , " Hey , man ! You better stop hittin ' the sauce , or I might be tempted to snake your ol ' lady . ” Streetlight angled a rectangle of ...
Page 176
... watched Maud gutting fish . A light - bulb sun dangled inches over her head , and he imagined her with a necklace of skele- tons , reaching down into a bucketful of little silver - scaled men . The thunk of her knife punctuated the ...
... watched Maud gutting fish . A light - bulb sun dangled inches over her head , and he imagined her with a necklace of skele- tons , reaching down into a bucketful of little silver - scaled men . The thunk of her knife punctuated the ...
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... watching her work . . . . What was her name ? " " Expectación . " 99 “ Oh , right . Well , watching her I got the feeling I was watch- ing something magical , something that went on and on . . . . She trailed off , feeling foolish at ...
... watching her work . . . . What was her name ? " " Expectación . " 99 “ Oh , right . Well , watching her I got the feeling I was watch- ing something magical , something that went on and on . . . . She trailed off , feeling foolish at ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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