Cumming, Elizabeth. "The Hand-Lady's Homebirth: Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin's Worlds." Science-Fiction Studies (July, 1990): 153-166. A discussion of the worldbuilding in Le Guin's fiction.

Cumming, Elizabeth. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin, revised edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Hill, Logan. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.'" In Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Hill is a scholar specializing in American literature. In his essay, he discusses the possible parallels between Omelas and America, and the moral implications of this story where the reader collaborates with the author.

Knapp, Shoshana. "The Morality of Creation: Dostoevsky and William James in Le Guin's 'Omelas.'" The Journal of Narrative Technique (winter, 1985): 7581.

Le Guin, Ursula K. Always Coming Home.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. A collection of short and long stories, poems, drawings, plays, and music detailing the culture of the Kesh people, who live in...