Tracking down a oldie
Hi - I've just joined this site to try to have a single question answered but I expect I might end up spending time I don't have enjoying the views
If anyone could help me on this it would be a weight off my mind anyway.
I'm trying to find the title and/or author of a short story I read many years back in a collection of short stories by one author. Maybe Bradbury, or Heinlein or ...?
In it, the protagonist is found guilty of a crime in this fictional alien culture. A fairly serious one which results in a harsh penalty by a judicial system which in his arrogance he had thought ludicrous. He serves 2 years I think... out of, but in society, as normal, except that he is ignored. By everyone. No matter what he does, he is entirely shunned. Someone nearly speaks to him once before they notice the thing that marks him out as someone serving time.
The loneliness drives him mad in various ways, but he is ultimately tearfully redeemed when he is allowed to rejoin society a changed man.
Thats how I remember it, but I'd really like to re-read it. It is one of those stories that is much more than just scifi and has strangely stuck in my memory.
Appreciated
Charlie
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