This week's post is from January of 2019, but I thought it seemed relevant now, particularly in light of the recent controversies of this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony. N.K. Jemisin won the Hugo for best novel three years in a row, starting in 2016, for the books in her Broken Earth Trilogy. In this essay, I discuss Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight," and the story it was inspired by, Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." 

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