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Physical description: 245 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Science fiction.
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- PublisherGalaxy Publishing
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0575003898
- ISBN 13 9780575003897
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages245
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A spectre is haunting Texas
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition; First Printing. Very clean, tightly bound book with no inscriptions, pages age-toned as usual, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. 246 page novel. Seller Inventory # 62871
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A Spectre Is Haunting Texas
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards are shelf rubbed.Minor markings.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # adlx
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A Spectre is Haunting Texas
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Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. The boards have a small bump to the top rear corner of the rear panel and a small dent in the right edge of the spine next to the front panel. Very slight marking to the edges of the pages in a few places. One faint spot to the rear free endpaper but the pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has only some very slight surface and edge wear. First printing. Seller Inventory # 017796
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Spectre is Haunting Texas [Hardcover] Fritz Leiber
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1969 British Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book and jacket are in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Seller Inventory # 39612
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A Spectre is Haunting Texas
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, slight lean, not price clipped (30/-), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 245pp. Originally published as a three part serial in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in 1968, the title appears to be based on a Karl Marx quote from The Communist Manifesto 'A spectre is haunting Europe.the spectre of communism'. Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz is an actor, fortune seeker and adventurer from the long isolated orbital technocratic democracies of Circumluna and the Bubbles Congeries. He lands in what he believes to be Canada to reclaim family mining interests only to discover that Canada is now North Texas and what is left of civilization in North America is ruled by primitive, backslapping, bigger than life anti intellectual 'good ole boys' convinced of their own moral superiority. In this tortured version of history, the giant hormone boosted Anglo Saxon inhabitants rule a diminutive Mexican underclass, the original Texas, or Texas, had actually secretly ruled the pre nuclear war United States since 1845. Texas escaped the nuclear destruction of the rest of the United States because of the foresight of Lyndon the First. An enormous bunker then known as the Houston Carlsbad Caverns Denver Kansas City Little Rock Pentagram and now referred to simply as the Texas Bunker had saved the heartland during a war that destroyed both American coasts, Europe, Russia, China, and Africa. Texas then conquered the rest of the continent, although Hawaii and Cuba remain stubbornly unconquered. Fritz Reuter Leiber (1910-92), was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having in fact coined the term. Seller Inventory # 007233
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A Spectre Is Haunting Texas
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Book Description Hardback: 8" x 5¼". Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1st UK Edition. © 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). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 22.081.00001
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