Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age.Īfter being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it. In the story, Omelas is a utopian city of happiness and delight, whose inhabitants are smart and cultured. It has also appeared as an independently published, 32-page hardcover book for young adults in October of 2002, ISBN 0886825016.
It was reprinted in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975, and has been frequently anthologized elsewhere. Le Guin's story was originally published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974 Publication It is a philosophical parable with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of characters the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative. " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Variations on a theme by William James) is a 1973 short story by Ursula K.
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