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Old 01-23-2019, 10:10 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
Has anyone else read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas? It's also by LeGuin but is a short story rather than a novel.

I just realised I had a similar experience with it as with The Left Hand of Darkness. It contains a strong central philosophical "what if?" question which I knew before I read it, and it left me feeling like it hadn't explored that question in much more detail.

It's worth reading, especially I think if you haven't been spoilt about the premise.
Didn't she talk in the introduction about many great books being "thought experiments" that resulted from asking "What if such and such were so?"
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