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Original Title:	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
ISBN:	0886825016 (ISBN13: 9780886825010)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1974)

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hardcover | Pages: 32 pages

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Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.
It was subsequently printed in her short story collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975.

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Title	:	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Author	:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 32 pages
Published	:	April 1997 by Creative Education, Inc. (first published October 1973)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Classics

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To me, this short story offers one of those "open question" scenarios. Apparently it was written in response to Le Guin's reading of the following passage from The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life by William James:Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely

They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there.This 1973 Hugo Award-winning fantasy short story is extremely short, and online, and this review will contain some spoilers, so if you haven't read this already, I strongly recommend that you take 5 or 10 minutes right now and do so here. I will wait. **Random trivia while we're waiting: Le Guin said that the name Omelas came

Thanks to Queen Tadiana whose beautiful review of this short story appeared on my feed a few months ago, I clicked on her link and read this story for myself.This is the second work by Ursula K. Le Guin which I have read, the first being The Left Hand of Darkness that I read in a college lit class a million years ago. And that novel really really deserves a re-read since I remember nothing about it except the general premise and the fact that the author, who has won numerous awards for her

"we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist"I read these half-dozen pages a couple of days ago, and it haunts me still. A strange, disturbing and very thought-provoking short story. There's something indefinably odd and slightly, chillingly, distant about the language from the start. That creates a suitably disconcerting contrast with the

Omelas is a place where everyone is happy because they have accepted their happiness. But that happened only because they realized that that happiness is not given. It is in contrast with what real misery is, what real cruelty is. The story is very thought provocative, short and easy to read. The writer is like she's talking to her audiance, being one of them and not one of the Omelas people. She understand the doubts of her audiance and she talks like one of them, an outsider trying to

You can read this short story here or listen to it on YouTube.I want to believe I would walk away from Omelas. And you know what? I'm a hypocrite. I would not feel so outraged should it all happen to an adult. But to a child? "I will be good," it says. "Please let me out. I will be good!" Why a child? Child abuse always gets to me.And why this sacrifice? Who made this rule? Symbolism be damned, I want this child freed because i know about him/her. I despise the people of Omelas for accepting

This excellent short story has become famous as one of choice and morality. What would you (or a society) accept as a trade off for a carefree life, a society without war or disharmony, where all enjoy freedom, gaiety, love, laughter, celebration, learning,....except... There is a price. And some walk away because of this price--hence the title. The narrator's voice is well done in presenting this utopian world by describing what is absent, all of the negative elements of existence. It is