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Rebecca (LirilAB)
The Philosopher Kings is the second book in Jo Walton's Thessaly trilogy and takes place 20 years after The Just City. The experiment of setting up a city based on Plato's Republic continues, except with a few new twists. The god, Apollo, continues his experience as an incarnate human while the generation who were only babies in the first book have now become adults or almost-adults. This is the first generation who were born and have spent their entire lives within a Platonic city.

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