Hirai Kazumasa's "A Time for Revolution" (short story, science fiction): Human rebellion against tyrant machines!

Full text of this story is available for download.
(original download link, now dead: "http://homepage.mac.com/gevantry/filechute/Kazumasa%20-%20Time%20for%20Revolution.pdf")

Story summary.

In far future, human mistakes have turned the surface of earth radioactive & uninhabitable. All animals & birds are dead. Humans live underground, in habitats called the "Pits". And the rulers of this world are robots, not humans. So much time has passed that those living in Pits don't even think of throwing out their robotic overlords.

But, to rebel is human! A few brave men begin the revolution. They escape from habitat through a long disused door to discover the dead planetary surface. But they are weak from long disuse of body & mind, & on a hostile world. How will they fight the mighty robots?

Somewhere along the evolution, humans must have acquired telepathic ability. For, these escapees will telepathically become parasites in long past - in the year 1967! They begin to take control of the minds of men of this far past, as parasites, to kill off the machines while machines are still in their infancy - so the future machine-dystopia can be averted!

See also.

1. Arthur Clarke's "The Parasite": Another story where humans from far future telepathically overtake the minds of humans of an earlier era. But this is a dark story - the future parasites are doing this for amusement.

Collected in.

1. Gene van Troyer & Grania Davis (Ed)'s "Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy".
   

Fact sheet.

Translated from original Japanese by David Aylward.
First published: Hayakawa SF Magazine, January 1963.
Rating: B