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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... woman woke , she was delighted . She hurried back to her village to tell her family , and on the way she met a friend , a woman , who was going to market . This woman had four goiters . The first woman told her what had happened , and ...
... woman woke , she was delighted . She hurried back to her village to tell her family , and on the way she met a friend , a woman , who was going to market . This woman had four goiters . The first woman told her what had happened , and ...
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... woman stood fac- ing it a few feet away . It was such an uncanny scene , this confrontation of fire and darkness , of two supernatural sys- tems , that Eliot was shocked to alertness . He had the idea that neither of them knew what to ...
... woman stood fac- ing it a few feet away . It was such an uncanny scene , this confrontation of fire and darkness , of two supernatural sys- tems , that Eliot was shocked to alertness . He had the idea that neither of them knew what to ...
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... woman was watching her from across the continent , from another mirror . She could almost make her out . Tall , long - legged , a mournful expression . Sara didn't need to see her to know the woman had been sad : it was the sad ones who ...
... woman was watching her from across the continent , from another mirror . She could almost make her out . Tall , long - legged , a mournful expression . Sara didn't need to see her to know the woman had been sad : it was the sad ones who ...
Contents
Foreword by Michael Bishop | 1 |
The Night of White Bhairab | 33 |
Salvador | 71 |
Copyright | |
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