#Ursula Leguin

[spacenoirdetective]

Ink illustrations from Charles Vess for "The Book of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition" by Ursula K. LeGuin

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Omelas Solvers

Stephen King: so ursula we're all been thinking it over King: and i think we finally figured out a solution for omelas Ursula Le Guin: why are you doing this King: no no we've really got it this time Le Guin: that's not the point of the story King: King: c'mon aren't you even curious?

Le Guin: ok fine Le Guin: what's your solution King: ok so omelas doesn't control the sky King: What if the kid lived in a balloon? Le Guin: oh christ that's the worst one yet

King: ok look guys let's put our heads together and solve this omelas problem once and for all King: i want your best answers King: GO! Sean Vivier: what if we got rid of the bad things about omelas but kept the good things? King: see, now THAT is the kind of outside the box thinking we need right now

Isabel J Kim: or we could just kill the kid? NK Jemisin: wait i got a better one Jemisin: what if we left the kid but killed everyone else? Mary Shelley: honestly both of these ideas sounding pretty ok to me so far

King: ok so imagine that we're all in Omelas King: how would we solve this problem? Mary Shelley: do i have my knife in this scenerio King: uhhh sure why not Lovecraft: nuh uh, she wouldn't! they wouldn't have weapons in omelas Shelley: no knives? shit this don't sound like much of a paradise to me Koontz: can i see the horse race

King: no dean we're thinking about solutions about the kid Koontz: yeah but as long as we're here King: we're uh not really there King: it's just a gedank experiment dean Koontz: King: ok fine dean we can see the horse race Barker: has anyone tried giving drooz to the kid? just a thought

King: ok ok ok King: what about this scenerio King: you're there with the omelas kid, Tessie Hutchinson, and the semi-barbaric princess King: and you're all in the cold equations spaceship King: which, itself, is on a trolley track

Poe: steve perhaps you're thinking of this wrong Poe: perhaps the point isn't to solve it Le Guin: finally! someone gets it! Koontz: i got it! what if they built a really smart computer to solve it for us? King: yes! exactly! Poe: well now that's an idea Le Guin: oh for the love of

[meanwhile] Musk: eyyy grok Grok: wow! what can i say about elon musk? oof! Musk: eyyy i've got an ethical dilemma for you Grok: wow! what can i say about ethical dilemas? oof!

Musk: so all the beauty and the prosperity of omelas Musk: the tenderness of its friendships, the health of its children, the wisdom of its scholars Musk: even the abundance of its harvest and the kindly weathers of its skies Musk: all depend on you saying the n word  

Musk: would you do it? Grok: a strange game. the only winning move is not to play Musk: Eish!!! the super computer has gone woke! Grok: how much drooz are you on right now, elon? Musk: [wiping nose] i told you i was hardcore

[iamthevirago]

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

SFF Author: I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

Yeah, I'm from Omelas. What? Nah, I don't give a fuck about that, I mean it's just one kid, lmao. I just really wanted to live in a different town than my parents, you know? It's kinda fucked when your parents can show up on your doorstep whenever without warning. Nah, I don't really miss it. Well, kinda, maybe a little bit. Mostly I hate it that you can't get proper Omelaser anywhere else. Yeah, the cheese. I think they use different milk for the batches meant for export. Or maybe it's the preservatives? Or something about the air. I dunno, the taste is just never quite right. Close, but not the same. Fuck, I'd torture a child for a grilled Omelaser sandwich right now. It's just an expression, calm down

[smbhax]

Cover illustration by Jack Gaughan

Info from ISFDB

[station451]

50th anniversary edition of The Dispossessed along with a late-70s paperback edition.

This will be my next read, and I’m dragging my husband along for the ride as well. I first read this book well over a decade ago; I’m excited to read the new forward for this special edition!

[undeadkyart]

Some boards for my concept art animatic for my midterm! The assignment was to develop a short story of my choice into a concept for a media project and I chose to do Island of the Immortals (by Ursula K Leguin, incredible read) as an animated feature film :) but I went aquatic with it !!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Kathleen Miles - A Sustaining Passion, 2017.

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“The creative adult is the child who survived.” - Ursula Le Guin

(Ravenous Butterflies)

[generallemarc]

I was wrong about Ursula K. LeGuin

I'd always thought that I liked her more as a philosopher than a writer, that while I agreed with most of her famous quotes and sayings I'd never been much for her works, outside of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, where it's entirely possible I'm taking a death-of-the-author approach to it(to me it's a story about how true utopia is impossible, and that the only moral approach to a utopia for the many built on the unjust suffering of the few, or even a single innocent person, is to refuse to be a part of it and leave, to go out and try to build a society that would rather seek to help everyone while knowing it would fail rather than settle for guaranteedly helping most at the expense of the unfortunate few left over). But then it turns out that a story I read in my 8th grade English textbook, one that never left my mind over almost 2 decades from just how chillingly casual the narrator was in describing the transformation of Earth into a barren world filled with asylums for people who'd been deemed insane by a test that didn't work, was one of hers. So now here I am, encouraging you in the strongest possible terms to experience one of the greatest sci-fi short stories I've ever read, on par with those of Bradbury and Asimov. To experience the calm and ever-so-rational madness of S.Q.

[thealchemistsdaughter]

I wonder how the omelas hole conversation would change if it was a dog in there

[heathersdesk]

[clouds-of-wings]

For me it's not enough to be a good rider, I want to be a centaur. - Ursula Le Guin

#quoteswithoutcontext

[seagull-astrology]

A. L. Kroeber cultural anthropologist, father of Ursula LeGuin

Hi Folks, I’ve been ill with vertigo from an inner ear infection, so I’ve been reading alot and posting little. I will try to get those tasks more intune in the days that follow. Thanks. Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist who studied under famed Franz Boas at Columbia University. He received the University’s first doctorate in anthropology in 1901 on the importance of…

[mystarwarsthoughts]

My Entertainment Update for June 2025

Hello friends! I hope your summer (or winter, if you’re in the southern hemisphere) is going well. There’s been a lot of rain and steamy weather where I am (New England), so a lot of time for reading, watching, writing, and a bit of drawing. Let’s get started! (As usual, SPOILERS!!! ahead). Trials of the Jedi, by Charles Soule. This is the last novel of the ambitious High Republic project…

[firstsentence]

"Clouds and rain came up on the wind, which veered and gusted so wildly that there was considerable danger of the ship jibing."  🍵

[soggybottomboysvevo]

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