# The Just City

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- Book: [The Just City](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton/the-just-city) ([The Just City.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton/the-just-city.md))
- Authors: [Jo Walton](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton)
- Publisher: corsair
- ISBN: 978-14-7215-076-9
- Published: 2015-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.