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ABANDONED. Sci-fi; Adult man chased by Flying machine but based on weight
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This sounds very much like The Ruum by Arthur Porges but I don’t think the character was escaping from prison so possibly not.
What i thought could that. Sounds close enough to be it & was leaning towards it being a short story. I wasn’t sure on the escaping part. But it could be "The Ruum" by Arthur Porges
You can read this story online. See link in my query.---
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Christopher (OP) was last active on the site in October 2020.
A sci-fi like happenings to an adult character. So the part has a adult man running from a flying machine chasing him because of escaping prison (I am pretty sure) or a least from an area he wasn’t supposed to get out of. So because he is running from the machine for long enough time in that amount of time that when he is caught by the machine he weighs LESS then 145 pounds & for some reason the machines only register a prisoner(human) in the weight range if of from 145-215 pounds. So if under 145 pounds or over 215 pounds the machine won’t take you, so he was free.
It could be from regular length book or short story. I’d say it came out 80s or 90s