# \[1973\] The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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**Created:** [January 17, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1973-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/2936 "2024-01-17T16:41:11Z")
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1973-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/2936/1 "2024-01-17T16:41:11Z")
> **[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas)**
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> "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" /ˈoʊməˌlɑːs/ is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. "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.
> The only chronolog...
```auto
@book{guin2017ones,
title={The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story},
author={Guin, U.K.L.},
isbn={9780062470973},
series={A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story},
url={https://books.google.co.cr/books?id=fZayDQAAQBAJ},
year={2017},
publisher={HarperCollins}
}
```
[In openlibrary](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26462577M/The_ones_who_walk_away_from_Omelas).
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1973-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/2936/2 "2024-01-17T16:43:12Z")
My highlights: [https://archive.org/download/elopio-stories/ursula\_k\_leguin-omelas.pdf](https://archive.org/download/elopio-stories/ursula_k_leguin-omelas.pdf)