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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... window screens were ornately carved into the images of gods and demons , and behind a large window screen on the temple of White Bhairab lay the mask of that god . It was almost ten feet high , brass , with a fanciful head- dress and ...
... window screens were ornately carved into the images of gods and demons , and behind a large window screen on the temple of White Bhairab lay the mask of that god . It was almost ten feet high , brass , with a fanciful head- dress and ...
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... window cracks and rattling the panes , smacking down a sheet of ply- board that has been leaning against the woodpile , swelling to a pour off the open sea , its howl articulated by throats of narrow streets and teeth of vacant houses ...
... window cracks and rattling the panes , smacking down a sheet of ply- board that has been leaning against the woodpile , swelling to a pour off the open sea , its howl articulated by throats of narrow streets and teeth of vacant houses ...
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... window and returned with the news that the corpse was stiffened in its leather tunic , its cheeks bris- tling with a dead man's growth , and strings of desiccated blood were hanging from its chin . But as we well remem- bered his habit ...
... window and returned with the news that the corpse was stiffened in its leather tunic , its cheeks bris- tling with a dead man's growth , and strings of desiccated blood were hanging from its chin . But as we well remem- bered his habit ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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