A point of order on Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series.

To wit: Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series is not evocative of “Those Who Walk Away From Omelas.” It is a rejection (whether intended or not) of Le Guin’s malignant thesis that the only options when confronting evil is to either just live with it, or else flee from its power*. There’s always the choice to fight back.

Okay, I’ll get off this soapbox now.

#commissionearned

Moe Lane

PS: …Jesus Christ but the Seventies just utterly sucked, huh?

*I have less contempt for the people in TWWAFO who stayed. They at least made a moral decision and stuck to it, even if it was the hideously wrong one. But you can never trust a coward.