War Veteran
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'''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.
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[[Category:1955 short stories]]
[[Category:Short stories by Philip K. Dick]]
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