dangerouscurve
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I need help finding out the name of the story and the author.
But first, if you aren't familiar with Sci-Fi published in the years before 1970 you probably won't be able to help with this, for reasons which will become obvious.
From the 1960's on, I have read hundreds of science fiction stories.
The ones I remember best are the ones that were published between the late 1940's and the 1960's.
This is one of them. It might have been a short novel, but I doubt it.
I believe that it was a short story and published in an anthology.
This is the gist of the story:
A man is found guilty of a serious crime.
In the society he lives, it is forbidden to kill anybody or to provide help or shelter to a criminal.
Prison and execution are both out.
Doctors change his body chemistry so that he gives out a terrible smell.
It is impossible for him to hide the smell.
Everybody in a certain distance of him can smell him.
No amount of protection or perfume can hide the smell.
He is then released back into society.
I cannot remember the name of the author, but he or she had already been published by 1970.
It was an old-school sci-fi author, who published at least between the 1950's and the 1960's. The list of old-school sci-fi authors could include Heinlein, Asimov, Dick, Zelazny, Arthur C Clarke, Le Guin, and many more that there is no space to include.
But it is certainly not one of the science fantasy or similar authors such as Michael Moorcock or Jean Auer.
Can anybody help, please?
But first, if you aren't familiar with Sci-Fi published in the years before 1970 you probably won't be able to help with this, for reasons which will become obvious.
From the 1960's on, I have read hundreds of science fiction stories.
The ones I remember best are the ones that were published between the late 1940's and the 1960's.
This is one of them. It might have been a short novel, but I doubt it.
I believe that it was a short story and published in an anthology.
This is the gist of the story:
A man is found guilty of a serious crime.
In the society he lives, it is forbidden to kill anybody or to provide help or shelter to a criminal.
Prison and execution are both out.
Doctors change his body chemistry so that he gives out a terrible smell.
It is impossible for him to hide the smell.
Everybody in a certain distance of him can smell him.
No amount of protection or perfume can hide the smell.
He is then released back into society.
I cannot remember the name of the author, but he or she had already been published by 1970.
It was an old-school sci-fi author, who published at least between the 1950's and the 1960's. The list of old-school sci-fi authors could include Heinlein, Asimov, Dick, Zelazny, Arthur C Clarke, Le Guin, and many more that there is no space to include.
But it is certainly not one of the science fantasy or similar authors such as Michael Moorcock or Jean Auer.
Can anybody help, please?