The Resource The just city, Jo Walton
The just city, Jo Walton
- Summary
- 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. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 368 pages
- Isbn
- 9780765332660
- Label
- The just city
- Title
- The just city
- Statement of responsibility
- Jo Walton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.--Provided by publisher
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- Title
- The just city
- Summary
- 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.
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- 10390118
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- Series statement
- Just city novels
- Series volume
- 0001
- Target audience
- adult
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- Jo Walton
- Label
- The just city, Jo Walton
- Related Subjects
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- Free will and determinism
- Science fiction
- Mythological fiction
- Athena (Greek deity)
- Imaginary places -- Fiction.
- Islands
- Apollo (Greek deity)
- Philosophy
- Adult books for young adults
- Gods, Greek -- Fiction.
- Time travel -- Fiction.
- Intellectual life
- Students
- Planned communities -- Fiction.
- Knowledge
- Time travel
- Multiple perspectives
- Thera (Islands)
- Control code
- ocn879582515
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- Dimensions
- 22 cm
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 368 pages
- Isbn
- 9780765332660
Subject
- Gods, Greek -- Fiction.
- Imaginary places -- Fiction.
- Planned communities -- Fiction.
- Socrates, 470?-399 B.C
- Time travel -- Fiction.
- Adult books for young adults
- Apollo (Greek deity)
- Athena (Greek deity)
- Free will and determinism
- Intellectual life
- Islands
- Knowledge
- Multiple perspectives
- Mythological fiction
- Philosophy
- Science fiction
- Students
- Thera (Islands)
- Time travel
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