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"If the Red Slayer", a short story by Robert Sheckley, first published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1959. The title is from the poem "Brahma" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"If the Red Slayer", a short story by Robert Sheckley, first published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1959. The title is from the poem "Brahma" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

*The story is set on Earth, and centers around a soldier who has been killed several times in a war that has dragged on for years between rival powers. The soldier is American (IIRC), and the enemy is probably one of the communist powers of that era. The war has gone on so long, and been so bloody, that there simply weren't enough fresh recruits to replace losses.

The story is set on Earth, and centers around a soldier who has been killed several times in a war that has dragged on for years between rival powers. The soldier is American (IIRC), and the enemy is probably one of the communist powers of that era. The war has gone on so long, and been so bloody, that there simply weren't enough fresh recruits to replace losses.

** It's explained a new technique has been developed that can "unscramble" traumatic head injuries, and that a head shot is no longer a permanent death.**

It's explained a new technique has been developed that can "unscramble" traumatic head injuries, and that a head shot is no longer a permanent death.