The Ones Who Stay and Fight

The Ones Who Stay and Fight

2020 • 8 pages

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Average rating3.5

15

Recently translated this short story into Dutch and developed an extensive 40-page lessen package (together with the original Le Guin story) around it, along with an “audiobook” reading of it. It's certainly an interesting take on the Omelas story, although it feels just as flawed in different ways. This story is narratively a bit more complex and more typical of a SFF short story as opposed to Omelas being a straightforward parable. If you've read some Jemisin, you'll find some of her usual stuff in here distilled in a few pages. An interesting pairing with the Omelas story.

December 6, 2021