Novelette
Soldier from Tomorrow
- by Harlan Ellison
- Fantastic Universe, October 1957
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.
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.