The Just City Av Jo Walton

<p><b><i>'Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent.'</i></b> <br><br> 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. <br><br> 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.<br><br>Then Socrates arrives, and starts asking troublesome questions.<br><br>What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.</p>