Books by Jo Walton
“What we have here is time travellers setting up Plato’s Republic on an island with the help of Greek gods. These are time travellers from the past and present and future. So Cicero is there, but we also have Victorian people and Renaissance people who studied Plato, and robots from the future… And they are trying to set up and do the Republic. It’s a really delightful series, thinking directly through Plato’s Republic in the way it needs to be thought through.” Read more...
Ada Palmer, Novelist
Interviews where books by Jo Walton were recommended
The Best Sci-Fi Book Series, recommended by Ada Palmer
A series gives a sci fi writer time to develop powerfully layered worlds, says award-winning author and historian Ada Palmer. She talks us through five series that make the most of this complexity, and envision worlds ranging from lunar anarchist settlements to a real-life Plato’s Republic.
