Why is the Thessaly trilogy called 'Thessaly'? Is it Mt. Olympus? Critias? Or ...? Love the first two and looking forward to the Mother of Invention.

Jo Walton In Plato's "Crito", Crito tries to persuade Socrates to flee from Athens and go to Thessaly, and Socrates asks what he would do there. His argument is that people belong in their places and cities and if you take them out of that context then they can't live their lives -- if they wanted to live different lives, they should have made that choice, not be forced to it. I was reading this one day, and I thought "If I'd been there, I'd have hit him on the head and taken him to Thessaly and let him ask questions afterwards..." "The Just City" comes directly from that thought.

And this is why my Sokrates calls his house in the City "Thessaly".

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I don't think this is really a question. But have you ever wanted to say "Thank you" but not known how to, because it feels as though everyone is watching whatever you do? Well, whatever--Thanks!

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Hi Jo, I love your diverse range of books. The only other writer I can think of who writes across so many genres is Michael Faber. However, I tried to recommend your books to someone and they said, no thanks, she writes fantasy. I tried to explain to them you're more broad than that. However, it made me curious how you feel to be considered a Science fiction and fantasy writer and if that's how you think of yourself?

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Hello! I was wondering about your writing process. Once you have your character, idea, or any sort of inspiration on the type of story you want to tell: where do you start the actual writing? Do you write multiple drafts, start with an outline, simply write one draft and edit along the way?

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Why is the Thessaly trilogy called 'Thessaly'? Is it Mt. Olympus? Critias? Or ...? Love the first two and looking forward to the Mother of Invention.

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I don't think this is really a question. But have you ever wanted to say "Thank you" but not known how to, because it feels as though everyone is watching whatever you do? Well, whatever--Thanks!

Hello! I was wondering about your writing process. Once you have your character, idea, or any sort of inspiration on the type of story you want to tell: where do you start the actual writing? Do you write multiple drafts, start with an outline, simply write one draft and edit along the way?

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