War Veteran
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War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in If magazine in March 1955.
The plot concerns an old man who appears to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies. The man turns out to be a synthetic human, designed to trick the Earth people into believing they could never win the war, forcing them to make peace. The android of the story is a forerunner of the kind (named replicant in the film Blade Runner) that appears in Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This story shows how pent up racial tension is a dangerous tool. And as always with Dick, not everything is what it seems to be.
| Short Stories by Phillip K Dick |
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The Cookie Lady | Stability | Roog | Project: Earth | Expendable (short story) | The Little Movement | The Preserving Machine | The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford | Beyond Lies the Wub | The Gun (short story) | The Skull (short story) | The Defenders | Mr. Spaceship | Piper In The Woods | The Infinities | The Indefatigable Frog | The Variable Man | The Crystal Crypt | The Builder | Meddler | Paycheck | Out In The Garden | The Great C | The King Of The Elves | Colony (short story) | Prize Ship | Nanny (short story) | Beyond the Door | Second Variety | Jon's World | The Cosmic Poachers | Some Kinds of Life | Progeny | Martians Come In Clouds | The Commuter | The World She Wanted | A Surface Raid | The Trouble with Bubbles | A Present for Pat | Breakfast at Twilight | Of Withered Apples | The Hood Maker | Human Is | The Impossible Planet (short story) | Adjustment Team | Impostor | James P. Crow | Planet For Transients | Small Town | Souvenir | Survey Team | Vulcan's Hammer | Prominent Author | Fair Game | The Hanging Stranger | The Eyes Have It | Time Pawn | The Golden Man | The Turning Wheel | The Last of the Masters | The Father-thing | Strange Eden | A Glass of Darkness | Tony and the Beetles | Null-O | Exhibit Piece | To Serve the Master | The Crawlers | Sales Pitch | Shell Game | Upon the Dull Earth | Foster, You're Dead! | Pay for the Printer | War Veteran | The Chromium Fence | Misadjustment | A World of Talent | Psi-man Heal My Child! | Service Call | Autofac | Captive Market | The Mold of Yancy | Minority Report | The Unreconstructed M | Recall Mechanism | Explorers We | War Game | If There Were No Benny Cemoli | Novelty Act | Waterspider | What the Dead Men Say | Orpheus with Clay Feet | Stand-by (short story) | The Days of Perky Pat | What'll We Do With Ragland Park? | Oh, to be a Blobel! | All We Marsmen | The War with the Fnools | Cantata 140 | A Game of Unchance | The Little Black Box | Precious Artifact | The Unteleported Man | Retreat Syndrome | Project Plowshare | Faith of our Fathers | We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Holy Quarrel | Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday | Return Match | Not By Its Cover | The Story To End All Stories | The Electric Ant | A. Lincoln, Simulacrum | Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked | The Different Stages Of Love | A Little Something For Us Tempunauts | The Pre-persons | The Eye of The Sibyl | The Exit Door Leads In | Chains Of Air, Web Of Aethyr | Strange Memories Of Death | I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon | Rautavaara's Case | Fawn, Look Back | The Alien Mind | The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out Of Its Tree | Goodbye, Vincent | 11-17-80 | The Name of the Game is Death |
