Necessity | 
This has been one of my favorite series the last few years, and I looooooove Jo Walton. I just wish I'd slept a bit more. @24in48 #readathon
This is the 3rd in this series and I don't know how Walton makes it work (but she does). It all begins when Athena decides to do an experiment : make Plato's republic real and Apollo decides to live there-as a human. There are so many nerds I want to recommend this series to-whatcha waiting for?
so-soDoesn't live up to the previous books in the series. Has lots of potential for interesting questions and conflicts, but the good stuff was shunted to the side for a boring and too easily resolved hunt for Athene.
Full review at https://shelflove.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/necessity/
It seems to me ... that art can come at philosophical issues sideways, and open the soul to them where otherwise the mind might throw up bastions against the truth.
Hooray for library requests. My library ordered this at my request and now it's here. So excited to read this weekend.
pickIf you've been waiting until Jo Walton's Thessaly trilogy was complete, your wait is over. NECESSITY is here, and it's got everything. Philosophy! Gods! Aliens! Alien gods! Time travel! Contemplative robots! It's my favourite of the three, but you'll probably want to start with THE JUST CITY and work your way forward so you can watch all these conversations about Plato play out.
Went to the pre-launch for the amazing Jo Walton. She's pretty much the smartest person on the planet, and everything she writes is amazing. Also reading was Ada Palmer, for her debut novel, which I also bought because what she read was fascinating.
