Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy - The Just City; The Philosopher Kings; Necessity

New York: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First printing. Spine lightly creased. 2017 Trade Paperback. 718 pp. Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Jo Walton's critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy. The goddess Athena thought she was creating a utopia. Populate the island of Thera with extraordinary men, women, and children from throughout history, and watch as the mortals forge a harmonious society based on the tenets of Plato's Republic. Meanwhile, following his famous spurning by a nymph, Athena's ever-curious brother Apollo has decided to live a mortal human life on the island, in an effort to gain a better understanding of humanity. But as both Athena and Apollo soon discover, even the Just City is susceptible to the iron law that nothing ever happens as planned. And there are sins in Paradise, mortal and divine, far graver than the everyday ones. In an epic encompassing sandy Mediterranean shores and the farthest reaches of the galaxy, Victorian England and Renaissance Italy, gods and humans argue, fight, love, and most of all, learn from one another, in critically-acclaimed author Jo Walton's unique exploration of the human condition, Thessaly.