The Just City
First Written 2015
Genre Fiction
Origin US
Publisher Tor
My Copy library copy
First Read July 11, 2015

The Just City

Jo Walton

2015

Notes

Pallas Athena decides to implement Plato's Republic in a real place. So to do that, she timetravel/kidnaps thousands of ten-year-old children, and gathers an assortment of teachers and scholars who have been passionate about the Republic to teach them. It's fascinating mostly, if tonally a little weird. And it really made me want to read The Republic, finally!

Noted on July 31, 2015

This is, I suppose, kind of scifi, but it reads more like YA.

Noted on July 31, 2015

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