Lucius Shepard
The Jaguar Hunter
A New York Times notable book of the year

"A major new talent in speculative fiction … whose work transcends genre boundaries and stands as serious mainstream fiction." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"No matter how you classify Shepard, he is very, very good." — Los Angeles Daily News

Described by the Washington Post as "the most exciting new story writer of them all," Shepard made his literary debut in 1983 and has since emerged as a phenomenon, one of the most astonishing new talents ever to grace the field of imaginative fiction. Neither a strict realist nor a genre fantasist, Shepard employs his visionary realm as an extension, an intensifier, of the world we know.

The stories in this acclaimed volume transport us into Shepard's mezmerizing world, where humanity mingles with other realities — parallel worlds, magic, the future — and the reader is conveyed beyond the merely speculative into the starkly tragic. Deeply human, lush, magnetic, all the stories in this landmark collection hold the reader spellbound, and haunt the heart and mind in remembrance.

This volume includes the previously unanthologized novella, "Radiant Green Star," which first appeared in Asimov's and won the 2001 Locus Award for Best Novella. It also includes the story "R & R," which appeared in the original 1987 Arkham House edition but was not included in the 1989 Bantam edition.

Lucius Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He has taught Spanish at a diplomatic school, owned a T-shirt company, worked as a janitor in a nuclear facility and as a bouncer at a brothel in Málaga, and "beat his brains out" as a rock musician. His short fiction has been published in many national magazines and in 1985 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has twice won the World Fantasy Award and has several times won the Nebula Award and the Locus Award for science fiction writing.

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