2017 Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction Finalist 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.
A native of Wales, Walton lives in Montreal..
Before that, her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004.
About the Author: JO Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel Among Others.
And there\'s suddenly a human ship in orbit around Plato--a ship from Earth.
Pytheas dies as a human, returning immediately as Apollo in his full glory.
Then, on the same day, two things happen.
The Cities are flourishing on Plato, and even trading with multiple alien species.
Now, more than a generation has passed.
Convinced by Apollo to spare the Cities, Zeus instead moved everything on the island to the planet Plato, circling its own distant sun.
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.
Forty years ago, the five cities managed to bring their squabbles to a close.
Sixty years ago, the Just City schismed into five cities, each devoted to a different version of the original vision.
Among the City\'s children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form.
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. 2017 Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction Finalist 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
