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War Veteran

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1955 short story by Philip K. Dick
For former military personnel, seeVeteran.

"War Veteran" was published in the March 1955 issue ofIf

"War Veteran" is ascience fiction short story by American writerPhilip K. Dick.[1] It was first published inIf magazine in March 1955.

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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.

References

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  1. ^Delap, Richard (December 1969)."THE PRESERVING MACHINE by Philip K. Dick Review"(PDF).Science Fiction Review. RetrievedNovember 27, 2020.

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