'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.
Meanwhile, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things that human beings understand better than he does - has decided to become a mortal child, head to Athene's City and see what all the fuss is about.
Then Socrates arrives, and starts asking troublesome questions.
What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.
ISBN: | 9781472150769 |
Publication date: | 2nd July 2015 |
Author: | Jo Walton |
Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 368 pages |
Series: | Thessaly |
Genres: |
Fantasy |