Qarlo Clobregnny (aka pryt sizfifwunohtootoonyn), psychologically and physically conditioned as a foot soldier from the moment of birth, is transported from the time of Great War VII to a 1950s subway platform where he and his story eventually become a force in an unexpected direction.

A few years later, the story was the basis of an Outer Limits episode.
No matter how violent, how involved, how pushbutton-ridden Wars became, it always simmered down to the man on foot. It had to, for men fought men still.

Tags

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Variants

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  1. “Soldier from Tomorrow” by Harlan Ellison, Fantastic Universe, October 1957.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Harlan Ellison
  2. canonical title.
    “Soldier from Tomorrow” by Harlan Ellison, in From the Land of Fear (Belmont Books, February 1967).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Harlan Ellison

Translations

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  1. French.
    “Soldat (1ere version)” by Harlan Ellison, in Du pays de la peur (Marabout, 1973).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Harlan Ellison
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by René Foucart

Derived Works

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  1. “Soldier” by Harlan Ellison and Leslie Stevens, directed by Gerd Oswald (19 September 1964).

Indexer Notes

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  1. French title—We believe that the qualifier—(1ere version)—appears on the story’s title page. It is to distinguish this prose story from the TV script—“Soldat” (2eme version)—that also appears in the French collection Du pays de la peur.