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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published October 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Omelas

Synopsis

This is a happy society. With happy (and complicated) people.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1974 Hugo Award Best Short Story Winner
1974 Locus Poll Award Best Short Fiction Nominee/Finalist
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Short Story Runner-up
2017 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Nominee/Finalist

Publications (81)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1973 New Dimensions 3 Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 1
February 1974 New Dimensions III Signet / New American Library Anthology 1
February 1974 New Dimensions III Signet Anthology 1
July 1974 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 Ballantine Books Anthology 273
July 1974 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 Ballantine Books Anthology 273
October 1975 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 275
1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 275
1976 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Alternate World Recordings Collection |1
March 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row / SFBC Collection 224
June 1976 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 Ballantine Books Anthology 273
October 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 251
February 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 251
August 1977 The Hugo Winners, Volume Three Doubleday Anthology 471
September 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 251
December 1977 The Hugo Winners, Volume Three Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 471
1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 275
May 1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Panther / Granada Collection 112
1979 The Hugo Winners, Volume Three, Part Three: 1974-1975 Dennis Dobson Anthology 471
March 1979 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 251
June 1979 Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 1
June 1979 Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 1
July 1979 The Hugo Winners: Volume 3, Book 2 Fawcett Crest Anthology 233
November 1979 The Best of New Dimensions Pocket Books Anthology 139
November 1979 The Best of New Dimensions Pocket Books Anthology 139
1980 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Granada Collection 112
March 1981 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 252
October 1983 The Fantasy Hall of Fame Arbor House Anthology 424
1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection
September 1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection
June 1988 The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats Robinson Anthology 424
1989 Fictions: Second Edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 752
November 1989 The Wind's Twelve Quarters VGSF / Gollancz Collection 275
July 1990 The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats Robinson Anthology 424
1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection 275
April 1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperPaperbacks Collection 345
1993 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Creative Education Chapbook
November 1994 Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Newmarket Press Anthology 14
June 1997 Treasures of Fantasy HarperPrism Anthology 392
October 1998 Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 242
October 1998 The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century NewStar Publishing Anthology
September 1999 Treasures of Fantasy HarperPrism Anthology
September 1999 Treasures of Fantasy HarperPrism Anthology 518
December 1999 The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century Phoenix Audio Anthology
October 2000 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 275
November 2001 Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century Ace Books Anthology 212
December 2001 Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century Ace Books / SFBC Anthology 212
2002 Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 242
2004 Great Fantasy W. H. Smith Anthology 424
2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
2004 The Contemporary American Short Story Longman / Pearson Anthology 313
March 2004 Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century Ace Books Anthology 212
December 2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial / HarperCollins Collection
2006 30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years Pearson Longman Anthology 209
October 2007 American Short Stories Pearson Longman Anthology 489
April 2009 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Paw Prints Collection
October 2009 The Secret History of Science Fiction Tachyon Publications Anthology 39
2010 Backpack Literature Longman Anthology 230
January 2010 Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories Night Shade Books Anthology
January 2011 Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories Night Shade Books Anthology 33
November 2012 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection 1
November 2012 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection
December 2012 Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories: Second Edition Night Shade Books Anthology 33
2013 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection 1
April 2014 Outer Space, Inner Lands Recorded Books Collection |1
July 2014 Outer Space, Inner Lands Gollancz Collection 1
January 2015 Outer Space, Inner Lands Gollancz Collection 1
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 254
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gateway / Orion Collection
September 2016 Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny Dover Publications Anthology 87
October 2016 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus 329
October 2016 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2016 The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
February 2017 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Harper Perennial Chapbook
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
November 2017 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2017 The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
July 2020 The Big Book of Modern Fantasy Vintage Books Anthology 228
July 2020 The Big Book of Modern Fantasy Vintage Books Anthology |228
October 2021 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperAudio Collection |275
September 2022 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection 277