num_pages: 245
description: A Spectre is Haunting Texas is a Fritz Leiber novel, 1st appearing as a book in '69, originally published as a 3-part serial in Galaxy Science Fiction in '68. Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz is an actor, fortune seeker &amp; adventurer from the isolated orbital technocratic democracies of Circumluna &amp; the Bubbles Congeries. He lands in what he believes to be Canada to reclaim family mining interests. He discovers Canada is now N. Texas &amp; what remains of civilization in N. America is ruled by primitive, backslapping, bigger than life anti-intellectual "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority. In the tortured version of history known to the giant hormone-boosted Anglo-Saxon inhabitants who rule a diminutive Mexican underclass, the original Texas had secretly ruled the pre-nuclear war USA since 1845: "Oh it was never given out to the general public in the states, who never had no brains or guts nohow &amp; flustered easy, that this assumption of leadership was annexation--but it was always known to the Speaker of the House &amp; the senators who counted in Washington that secretest treaty Texas was boss...With the coming of the 3rd World War &amp; the atomization of Washington, New York, San Francisco &amp; so forth, secrecy became unnecessary." Texas escaped the USA's nuclear destruction because of the foresight of Lyndon I. An emormous bunker known as the Houston-Carlsbad Caverns-Denver-Kansas City-Little Rock Pentagram &amp; now referred to simply as the Texas Bunker had saved the heartland during a war that destroyed the American coasts, Europe, Russia, China &amp; Africa. Texas then conquered the rest of the continent, tho Hawaii &amp; Cuba remain stubbornly unconquered.Cover Illustration: Neil McPheeters
language: English
title: A Specter Is Haunting Texas
titlecomplete: A Specter Is Haunting Texas
characters: Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz
genres: Fiction, Alternate History, Humor, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 354
places: Canada, Texas
publisher: Collier Nucleus / Macmillan