A Spectre Is Haunting Texas

Leiber, Fritz

ISBN 10: 0575003898 / ISBN 13: 9780575003897

Published by Victor Gollancz / Gollancz SF, 1969

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© 1968: A stand-alone novel by Fritz Leiber. 1st UK edition, 1st printing. Signed by Author to Title Page:- Synopsis: El Esqueleto! Christopher Crockett La Cruz (or 'Scully') is an actor, an extrovert and a ladies man. He is also an opportunist and a liberal on the side. Most conspicuously he is a Thin, a muscleless free-fall phenomenon whose home is Circumluna, a self-sustaining Moon satellite. Scully can only support life in Earth-gravity conditions by encasing himself in a powered titanium exoskeleton. To most of the inhabitants of the ravaged post World War III Earth, he looks outlandish, even sinister. To their women he looks attractive. Earth looks equally odd to Scully. The uneasy truce brought about by the exhaustion of radioactive material has left the United States only partly habitable and wholly dominated by Texas. In fact there is no U.S.A., only Greater Texas. And a Greater Texas demands greater Texans. Hormone treatment has turned Texans into giants and their Mex slaves into unhappy dwarves resentful of their fate and ripe for revolution. To the Mexes, Scully is a Sign, a talisman, a leader. To Scully, the Mexes are a Cause, their superstitious awe of him bringing his actor's vanity to the aid of his humanitarian impulses and forcing him to take the role they thrust upon him. Besides, there are women in the case:- Review(s): "This is a remarkable novel of satiric imagination. Fritz Leiber, well-known to all readers of science fiction and winner of a Hugo Award for his novel, 'The Wanderer', has produced a caricature of the future whose impact is similar to that of Alfred Bester's 'Tiger, Tiger' and '[The] Demolished Man':- (original cost '30).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Spectre Is Haunting Texas
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz / Gollancz SF
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575003898
• ISBN 13: 9780575003897
• Binding: Hardback: 8" x 5¼"
• Illustrator: Cover Art: Uncredited
• Edition: 1st UK Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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A Spectre is Haunting Texas