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: | 2 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 126mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Thessaly |
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Critics Review
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)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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