Trailer: Journey 6

30 May 2025

Episode 6.00 – Trailer

Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and all the wrestling we do with dilemmas of ethics.

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Reading Ahead, Journey 6:

Ursula K. Le Guin: “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow”: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/LeGuin_VasterThanEmpires.pdf
Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”: https://archive.org/download/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin.pdf

Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/

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