War Veteran 1876413 206597718 2008-04-19T00:04:41Z Cast 741702 template fix {{Unreferenced|date=July 2007}} '''War Veteran''' is a [[science fiction]] short story by [[Philip K. Dick]]. First published in [[If (magazine)|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. {{Philip K. Dick}} [[Category:1955 short stories]] [[Category:Short stories by Philip K. Dick]] {{sf-story-stub}}