• hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    69·
    6 days ago

    Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode about this?

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

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      59·
      6 days ago

      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.”

      • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          6 days ago

          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.

          • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
            10·
            6 days ago

            …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