War Veteran

War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in If magazine in March 1955.

Related Topics:
Science fiction - Philip K. Dick - If - March - 1955

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The plot concerns an old man who appears to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devasting 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 the 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?

Related Topics:
Martian - Venusian - Replicant - Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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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.

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