"War Veteran" is ascience fiction short story by American writerPhilip K. Dick.[1] It was first published inIf magazine in March 1955.
The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in whichEarth has lost a devastating war to its ownMartian andVenusian 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. This type of android is a forerunner of the type appearing in Dick's novelDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and itsfilm adaptation.
A similar, supposedly time-displaced "war veteran" character appears in Dick's novelThe Zap Gun.
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