Jo Walton answers “¿Other books like this? I just loved it!”

Bipeda Implume asked this question about The Just City (Thessaly, #1):

¿Other books like this? I just loved it!

Jo Walton It depends what you like about it. If you want books about people trying to set up Plato's Republic, well, my two sequels are about it.

The things tha…moreIt depends what you like about it. If you want books about people trying to set up Plato's Republic, well, my two sequels are about it.

The things that are closest to this, in my opinion, are Mary Renault's "The Last of the Wine" and "The Mask of Apollo". LotW has Socrates, MoA has Plato, both of them have philosophy and love. They're set in ancient Greece.

If you want SF that considers philosophy and deity and how to live, you might really enjoy Ada Palmer's "Too Like the Lightning" and sequels. A draft of this was influential on my thinking when I came to write this.(less)

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