This approach also shows up in Walton’s (), which you can read as a Narnia fanfic with the serial numbers very rubbed off, or as a general commentary on YA portal fantasies. But, where *Hamilton* only has a few songs focusing on the process of group decision-making and problems that crop up in the implementation, Walton pays consistent attention to those details. I’m currently () with *Hamilton: An American Musical* which, like Thessaly, takes old text - often taught in history or philosophy or political science classes - and infuses it with emotion and suspense. > Writing about Plato’s Republic being tried seems to me an idea that is so obvious everyone should have had it, that it should be a subgenre, there should be versions written by Diderot and George Eliot and Orwell and H. To start with, clearly, Thessaly is transformative in that it concentrates on reusing and commenting on a text someone else made.
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.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.In this post I’ll discuss some ways in which Walton’s Thessaly series is transformative and some ways in which it’s feminist, and some thoughts on how those choices reinforce each other.
And there are sins in Paradise, mortal and divine, far graver than the everyday ones. 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.īut as both Athena and Apollo soon discover, even the Just City is susceptible to the iron law that nothing ever happens as planned. 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. The goddess Athena thought she was creating a utopia. Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literatureįor the first time, Jo Walton’s critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy Thessaly- The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity-is available in softcover, in a single-volume trade paperback omnibus
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