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October 1, 2022 48 mins
The first episode of the Utopia Podcast hosted by incurable bookworm Liam Tinker! We start figuring out what a utopia is and make our first foray into the world of utopian lit with sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."

I do mention a forthcoming episode for next next week a couple times, but it will in reality be recorded and released sometime within the next month. Oops...

Main intro music is from "Nucleus" by The Alan Parsons Project and story intro is from "Txalaparta Mística" by Tomás San Miguel.

Citations:

Le Guin, Ursula. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The Wind's Twelve Quarters. New York: Harpers, (1975): 275-84.

Sargent, Lyman Tower. “The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited.” Utopian studies 5, no. 1 (1994): 1–37.

Suvin, Darko. “Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal and a Plea.” Studies in the literary imagination. 6, no. 2 (1973).

Wyman, Sarah. “Reading Through Fictions in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.’” ANQ (Lexington, Ky.) 25, no. 4 (2012): 228–232.
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