Marley's Chain is a 1952 science fiction short story by Alan E. Nourse.

Tam's problem was simple. He lived in a world that belonged to someone else.

A strange little story about a man back on Earth after eight years in 'the rings.'

Looking for work, he can't find any. It seems he was a member of a losing side in a war, and there is prejudice against his kind.

Marley's Chain was first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1952.