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"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (/ ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s / [1]) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child ...
The anthology placed second in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Original Anthology. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, placed sixth in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction, and was a preliminary nominee for the 2017 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
Referencing older fiction, Jemisin includes a pastiche of Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" with "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and an alternative take on Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters with "Walking Awake".
Guynes noted that many individual stories in the collection were among Le Guin's most famous, including in particular "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and "The Day Before the Revolution". [47] Scholar Donna White noted that those two stories, along with "Nine Lives" are among Le Guin's most-anthologized stories. [50]
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Short story 1973: New Dimensions III, edited by Robert Silverberg: Collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Unreal and the Real; offered as a standalone ebook by Harper Perennial. [11] [46] "Direction of the Road" Short story 1973: Orbit 12, edited by Damon Knight: Collected in The Unreal and the Real ...
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The character Odo is described by Le Guin in her introduction to the story as "one of the ones who walked away from Omelas", [4] a reference to her short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", [8] which immediately precedes it in The Wind's Twelve Quarters. [42]