The Just City
"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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Tor Books
- Publish Date: Jan 13rd, 2015
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.82in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9781250811837
- Categories: • Fantasy - Dark Fantasy• Literary• Science Fiction - Time Travel
About the Author
Walton, Jo: - JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novel Among Others and the Tiptree Award for her novel My Real Children. Before that, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award. The novels of her Small Change sequence--Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half a Crown--have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics' Choice Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.
Praise for this book
" A fast-moving yet thought-provoking novel."--School Library Journal
"Walton's no-nonsense prose and dialogue are the kind of thing I can read anywhere, in any situation, and fall into a world of intelligent people speaking to each other intelligently in interesting ways...Brilliant, compelling, and frankly unputdownable."--NPR "An extraordinarily ambitious achievement."--The Globe and Mail