@booklet {5000, title = {"Old Music and the Slave Women"}, howpublished = {Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction}, year = {1999}, note = {

Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87;\ and in Hainish Novels \& Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 518-69 with a \“Note on the Text\” (781) and \“Notes (787).\ 

}, month = {1999}, pages = {7-52}, publisher = {Avon Eos}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018)}, editor = {Robert Silverberg (b. 1935)} } @booklet {2585, title = {"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)"}, howpublished = {New Dimensions}, volume = { 3}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. in her The Wind\’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper \& Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 \& 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind\’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O\’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.\ \ 

}, month = {1973}, pages = {1-8}, publisher = {Nelson Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, \“The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.\” Asimov\’s Science Fiction 41.3 \& 4 (494 \& 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow\’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee\’s \“A House by the Sea.\” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin\’s, \ \“The One Who Stay and Fight.\” In her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story\’s title. Cynthia G{\'o}mez\’s \“The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.\” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, \“The Ones Who Don\’t Walk Away.\” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018)}, editor = {Robert Silverberg (b. 1935)} }