A Spectre is Haunting Texas Author:Fritz Leiber Scully La Cruz was a Thin--a muscleless free-fall phenomenon whose home was the Sack circling the Moon....To the inhabitants of the ravaged post-war Earth, he looked spectrally outlandish. To Scully, the inhabitants of Earth looked equally odd. Because the U.S.A. had disappeared in the aftermath of the atomic conflict and had been replaced by Gr... more »eater Texas....dominated by the Greater Texans, masterful giants created by hormone treatments, who strode lordly about amidst their dwarfish peons and slaves. To these unhappy underlings, Scully appeared as a Sign, a leader for revolt. To Scully, this reverence sparked his actor instinct sufficiently to make him decide to accept that role.« less