![]() ![]() ![]() We tease out some of the elements of this story in a separate post.Ĩ. Le Guin raises some deeply unsettling but important ethical questions in this classic story, which is told in the beautiful, eloquent prose for which Le Guin’s work is rightly famed. But such happiness and prosperity has come at a terrible cost, for the success and contentment of everyone’s life is dependent on the suffering of a small child which is kept in miserable conditions in a room in the town. This story, like Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’, is perhaps more correctly labelled ‘speculative fiction’: it’s set in the fictional town of Omelas, in which everyone is happy and prosperous. Le Guin, ‘ The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’. What happens when all nine billion names are printed out? Well, that would be telling …ħ. Two men are hired to be the computer programmers for the monks’ task. They predict there are 9 billion different names in total, which new technology will allow them to itemise. This 1953 story is another which, like Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’, is often given the title of ‘one of the best short stories written before the Nebula Awards were created in the mid-1960s’.Ī group of Buddhist monks think that, once every single name by which ‘God’ is known has been listed, the world – indeed, the whole universe – will end. ![]() Clarke, ‘ The Nine Billion Names for God’. You can read more about this story in a separate post.Ħ. A man named Eckels turns up ready to undertake his safari … with disastrous results. A time-travel safari company in the United States, Time Safari Inc., allows animal-hunters to travel back in time in a Time Machine and kill a long-extinct animal, such as a dinosaur. The story begins in the future, sometime around 2055. The story was first published in Collier’s magazine in 1952 and then collected a year later in Bradbury’s short-story collection, The Golden Apples of the Sun. This is another classic time travel story, this time involving a journey back into the distant past rather than the far-flung future. ![]()
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