In the story the child in the city of Omelas from LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” (1973) is killed and city collapses. Another child is put in the “hole,” killed, the city collapses, and this is repeated over at least one generation.
BT - Clarkesworld C6 -The Korean American female author is a lawyer with degrees in Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Law from the University of Pennsylvania.
C7 - February 2024 DA - 02/2024 LA - eng N1 -Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/
N2 -In the story the child in the city of Omelas from LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” (1973) is killed and city collapses. Another child is put in the “hole,” killed, the city collapses, and this is repeated over at least one generation.
PY - 2024 T2 - Clarkesworld TI - “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/ VL - no. 209 ER -