It is a different world. It's North America, but very little of what you know is the same. The sun still shines and the grass still grows, but there are no people. There are -- or perhaps there aren't -- twelve Curials: kit fox, dolphin, raven, lioness and the rest, who intervene in the lives of the inhabitants. There are the inhabitants, a myriad of animals: mice, otters, meerkats, buffalo to name a few. They live in their towns and cities, pursuing their various occupations, having occasional celebrations ... and now and ...
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It is a different world. It's North America, but very little of what you know is the same. The sun still shines and the grass still grows, but there are no people. There are -- or perhaps there aren't -- twelve Curials: kit fox, dolphin, raven, lioness and the rest, who intervene in the lives of the inhabitants. There are the inhabitants, a myriad of animals: mice, otters, meerkats, buffalo to name a few. They live in their towns and cities, pursuing their various occupations, having occasional celebrations ... and now and then they live in fear. In fear of the Blood Jaguar, the thirteenth Curial, who returns from time to time and visits a horrible plague on the world, nearly killing it entirely. At such times, a fisher, a skink, and a bobcat are somehow impelled to go on a quest to stop her. They always fail. There is no reason to think that this time, of all times, Bobcat will somehow not fail.
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Seller's Description:
As New in As New jacket. Hardcover. Signed by Author First printing of the First Edition, published by Tor December 1998 in As New condition with an As New unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Bro-Dart. DJ art by Jim Carroll. Signed to previous owner on the first page by Michael H. Payne.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0312867832. Remainder; B/W Map; 256 pages; Hard cover is black cloth with red metallic lettering on spine. Black remainder dot on bottom of text block. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing, 3/8" closed tear at bottom of back flap' in a mylar cover. Has 2 page b/w map at beginning of book. Pages are clean and tight. NEW book. "The Blood Jaguar is a high fantasy story where the grand events so common to the genre take a back seat to the main character's evolution as an individual. At each new turn of the road or obstacle Bobcat faces, the most significant battles he fights are with his own perceptions of himself and the world around him. While the plotline has novel twists and turns of its own, readers expecting a traditional fantasy epic are liable to be a little surprised..."
