Synopsis
A man commits a crime of assualting one of an alien race. They sentence him to a very peculiar “jail.”
History
First publication: Fantastic, August 1968
Review
A very cool idea story about a very cool and different sort of punishment. Really short so it does not go much beyond developing that idea. But this is a strong work of science fiction imagination.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Warm Worlds and Otherwise, paperback, Del Rey, 1979-02-00
The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2023-09-00