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A story by this author ends with a 72-year-old woman noting that she didn’t have time to learn the name of the dry, white flowers in the fields. Another story by this author bemoans that we think of happiness “as something rather stupid” and encourages the reader not to hesitate to imagine an orgy if it will (10[1])help (10[1])to convince (10[1])them (10[1])that (10[1])the story’s setting isn’t too “goody-goody.” (10[1])This author described (10[2])the last day of the political philosopher Laia (10[1])Asieo Odo in “The Day Before the Revolution.” (10[1])A story by this author opens with the sounds of bells for the Festival of Summer, (10[3])in a city where people take the (10[2])drug (10[1])drooz (10[2])and whose prosperity depends on the (10[1])misery (10[2])of a child locked in an underground room. For 10 points, (10[1])“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (“OH-muh-loss”) is by what American science fiction author of The Left Hand of Darkness? ■END■

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