Sci-Fi & Speculative
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A brief philosophical tale about a utopian city whose prosperity depends on the suffering of a single child, and the people who, upon learning this truth, choose to walk away. Le Guin's devastating parable questions the ethics of collective happiness built on individual torment. In spare, luminous prose, she examines complicity, moral courage, and whether paradise can ever be justified by cruelty.
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