The Just City

'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.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Walton
• Publisher: Corsair
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781472150769
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-5076-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Corsair; Thessaly; Tom Thorne Novels; Thessaly
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature