Necessity

✍ Scribed by Walton, Jo

• Book ID: 109310495
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 349 KB
• Series: Thessaly 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765379023

✦ Synopsis

Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings , Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.

More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries before the Trojan War, populating it with teachers and children from throughout human history, and committing it to building a society based on the principles of Plato's Republic. Among the City's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form.

Sixty years ago, the Just City schismed into five cities, each devoted to a different version of the original vision.

Forty years ago, the five cities managed to bring their squabbles to a close. But in consequence of their struggle, their existence finally came to the attention of Zeus, who can't allow them to remain in deep antiquity, changing the course of human history. Convinced by...