Martin George R.R. Martin is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series, now the HBO original series Game of Thrones. According to myth, he began his career selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies. Subsequent work has won many awards, including the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. In this story, first published in Omni magazine in 1985, a wise-cracking mutant travels from the future to save the world from cataclysmic war. On the high ramparts of Vargön, Colonel Bengt Anttonen stood alone and watched phantasms race across the ice. The world was snow and wind and bitter, burning cold. The winter sea had frozen hard around Helsinki, and in its icy grip it held the six island citadels of the great fortress called Sveaborg. The wind was a knife drawn from a sheath of ice. It cut through Anttonen’s uniform, chafed at his cheeks, brought tears to his eyes and froze them as they trickled down his face.
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