_A Specter is Haunting Texas_ by Fritz Leiber is a fun, if content-free, fantasy set in a future in which most of North America has been annexed by Texas. A man who has lived his life in a colony orbiting the Earth has come down to collect on an old mining claim. Instead, he finds himself playing the role of the messiah of the bentbacks (Mexican descendants), stirring up revolution as part of a travelling roadshow while fending off two women who are both claiming him as her own.