Summary
‘Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent.’
One day, in a moment of philosophical puckishness, the time-travelling goddess Pallas Athene decides to put Plato to the test and create the Just City. She locates the City on a Mediterranean island and populates it with over ten thousand children and a few hundred adults from all eras of history … along with some handy robots from the far human future.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472150769 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472150767 |
| Author: | Jo Walton |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Thessaly |
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Jo Walton is one of science fiction’s most versatile, thoughtful, and gripping writers … [A novel] about philosophy, history, gender and freedom [which] also manages to be a spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue.
An extraordinarily ambitious achievement … The Just City is a glorious example of one of the primary purposes of speculative fiction: serving as a map to the potentials and miseries of a possible world. - The Globe and MailJo Walton [is] utterly brilliant. - Independent, on My Real ChildrenRendered with Walton’s usual power and beauty. - New York Times, on My Real ChildrenThe award-winning Walton has written a remarkable novel of ideas that demands - and repays - careful reading. It is itself an exercise in philosophy that often, courtesy of Socrates, critically examines Plato’s ideas … the plot is always accessible and the world building and characterization are superb. In the end, the novel more than does justice to the idea of the Just City. - Booklist (starred review)About The Author
Jo Walton
Jo Walton comes from Wales but lives in Montreal, where the food and books are much better. She writes science fiction and fantasy, reads a lot, talks about books, and eats great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.
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