{"id":19179,"date":"2021-11-24T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2024-08-13T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:15:42","slug":"several-responses-to-omelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2021\/11\/24\/several-responses-to-omelas\/","title":{"rendered":"Several responses to Omelas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"border: 1px blue dotted; padding: 10px\">I\u2019ve moved this list to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/some-responses-to-omelas\/\">separate page<\/a>, and I\u2019m adding updates to that page rather than this one.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cone does not simply walk away from Omelas\u201d (\u2014Frumiosa, in a comment at <cite>The Toast<\/cite>)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>There\u2019ve been many many nonfiction articles about Omelas, but the pieces that I\u2019m linking to here are all presented as fiction.<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/a-house-by-the-sea\/\">A House by the Sea<\/a>,\u201d by P. H. Lee<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>What happens to the Omelas child when they get older? \u201cWould you believe me if I told you that they all live together in a house by the sea?\u201d Published in <cite>Uncanny<\/cite>\u2019s <cite>Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction<\/cite> issue, in 2018.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onbeyondzarathustra.com\/traintoomelas\">The Ones Who Take The Train To Omelas<\/a>,\u201d by John Holbo<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Plus Omelas travel posters. (Holbo also provides a page of notes talking about the underpinnings of what he was trying to do here.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight\/\">The Ones Who Stay and Fight<\/a>,\u201d by N. K. Jemisin<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Originally published in 2018, in <cite>How Long \u2019Til Black Future Month?<\/cite> (\u2026Not to be confused with the Omelas response piece with nearly the same title that was written by W.S. in 2016.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200227173125\/https:\/\/shedoesnotcomprehend.tumblr.com\/post\/169244532951\/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-city-called-omelas\">Multiple brief takes on Omelas<\/a>, by Moriwen<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>No longer available in its original Tumblr location; link is to the Wayback Machine archived version.<\/dd>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society","category-short-stories","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19179"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21126,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions\/21126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}