Flight From Tomorrow is a science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper first published in 1950.
Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn't know the past quite well enough….
An authoritarian ruler of the Solar System escapes a revolution by travelling to the past. He falls in 1950's North America.
Flight from Tomorrow was published in the September 1950 issue of Science Fiction Stories.
Henry Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of «Paratime» alternate history tales. Piper's stories fall into two camps: stark space opera, such as Space Viking, or stories of cultural conflict or misunderstanding, such as Little Fuzzy or the Paratime stories.
