“Fault”
1968-08-00
short story
By James Tiptree, Jr.

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.


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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