Night on Mispec Moor

Publication date: 
1974-08
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Vertex, August 1974
Opus No.: 
77
Setting: 
Léshy
Characters: 
Tomás Vatch
Summary: 

Niven does "Night of the Living Dead," as single surviving soldier finds himself alone on a bloody battlefield in the wake of a commercial war. When the sun sets and the dead soldiers around him begin to come back to life, Tomás Vatch struggles for his sanity as well as his life...

Notes: 

Sci-fi sword-and-sorcery horror story

Reprints: 

Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers, ed. Robert Adams, Pamela Crippen Adams & Martin H. Greenberg, NAL Signet 1988;
Phantom Regiments, ed. Robert Adams, Pamela Crippen Adams & Martin H. Greenberg, Baen 1990;
Convergent Series;
N-Space;
Best of Larry Niven, The