A Spectre is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber RARE Vintage 1971 Sci-Fi 1st Mayflower Paperback Edition
This is a remarkable novel of satiric imagination. The author has produced a caricature of the future that many disappoint a few serious science fiction addicts, but will greatly amuse the rest of us. Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times.
It was originally published as a three-part serial in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in 1968. Christopher Crockett La Cruz (or "Scully") is an actor, an extrovert and a ladies' man. Tomost of the inhabitants of post-World Warr III he looks outlandish, even sinister, To their women, he looks attractive. earth looks equally odd to Scully. Hormone treatment has turned Texans into giants and their Mex slaves into unhappy dwarfs.
To the Mexes, Scully is a Sign, a Talisman, a Leader. To Scully the Mexes are a Cause, The time is ripe for revolution...
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