• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode about this?

    We’re the bad planet that the Federation has an existential crisis over helping.

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      Strange New Worlds s1e6 “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach.” Heavily adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”

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        i read Catwings when I was a kid and cried at the ending

        …and learned decades later she write science fiction. who is this woman.

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          She’s one of the treasures of English literature.

          Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.

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            …she invented the “ansible”, a communication tech achieving faster than light travel, which would later be used by Orson Scott Card and other science fiction authors, mumbles away with book