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bobquasit ([personal profile] bobquasit) wrote2008-02-08 01:27 pm
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Omelas

This story by Ursula K. LeGuin kills me. Fair warning, if you haven't read it: it's painful, and will stay with you.

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

[identity profile] klyfix.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
It is an effective story, and the essential question it asks (which, of course, is a massive spoiler) is not a trivial one and not totally abstract. I have that in some collection or other, maybe more than one; it's one that's likely to be in most collections for that time.

The Wikipedia article for the story (yes, there's a full fledged entry) is rather interesting; note of course that it spoilers like crazy.