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The Just City

by Jo Walton
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The Just City
The Just City

Time-traveling goddess creates experimental utopian society.

"The Just City" might pique your curiosity if you're into speculative fiction with philosophical underpinnings. Jo Walton weaves mythology with time travel to explore the intricacies of an experimental society. The mix of historical figures and futuristic technology, governed by a pantheon of Greek gods, makes it a thought-provoking read that questions human nature and the pursuit of perfection.

  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017)
  • Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)
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The Just City

by Jo Walton
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ISBN: 9780765332660
Authors: Jo Walton
Publisher: Tor Books
Date of Publication: 2015-01-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Speculative Fiction, Mythology, Science Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 8217 readers)

Description

Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent. Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future--all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome--and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. Meanwhile, Apollo--stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does--has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives--the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself--to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect.
 

Time-traveling goddess creates experimental utopian society.

"The Just City" might pique your curiosity if you're into speculative fiction with philosophical underpinnings. Jo Walton weaves mythology with time travel to explore the intricacies of an experimental society. The mix of historical figures and futuristic technology, governed by a pantheon of Greek gods, makes it a thought-provoking read that questions human nature and the pursuit of perfection.

  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017)
  • Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.