“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”
| Title | “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” |
| Year for Search | 2024 |
| Authors | Kim, Isabel J. |
| Secondary Title | Clarkesworld |
| Volume / Edition | no. 209 |
| Date Published | February 2024 |
| Keywords | Female author, Korean American author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/ |
| URL | https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/ |
| Author Note | The Korean American female author is a lawyer with degrees in Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Law from the University of Pennsylvania. |
| Full Text | 2024 Kim, Isabel J. “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole.” Clarkesworld, no. 209 (February 2024). https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/ 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. The Korean American female author is a lawyer with degrees in Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Law from the University of Pennsylvania. |
