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Recently read:
The Just City, by Jo Walton. An excellent book with a somewhat unlikely premise: Athene tries to create Plato's Republic. It has gods (Apollo as well, he's one of the viewpoint characters), time travel, robots, a small number of humans who prayed for the chance to do this, and a large number of ten-year-old children purchased at slave markets. Also Sokrates, who unlike all the other people brought there as adults, didn't want it, and points out that he never said most of what Plato claims he did. There's a lot about consent in here—partly because Apollo's goal for the next few decades is to understand what Athene told him about Daphne—and an interesting exploration of artificial intelligence, which I hope we'll get more of in the next book.
Currently reading:
A Dead Red Oleander, by R. P. Dahlke, another mystery I downloaded for free from Amazon (pointers from the BookBuB emails). I think the author may be aiming for humor in some places that miss for me; this is first person from the viewpoint of an amateur detective, who shows remarkably poor judgment about who to trust.
Likely to read next:
Probably another of Tove Jansson's Moomin books; I currently have two out from the library.
The Just City, by Jo Walton. An excellent book with a somewhat unlikely premise: Athene tries to create Plato's Republic. It has gods (Apollo as well, he's one of the viewpoint characters), time travel, robots, a small number of humans who prayed for the chance to do this, and a large number of ten-year-old children purchased at slave markets. Also Sokrates, who unlike all the other people brought there as adults, didn't want it, and points out that he never said most of what Plato claims he did. There's a lot about consent in here—partly because Apollo's goal for the next few decades is to understand what Athene told him about Daphne—and an interesting exploration of artificial intelligence, which I hope we'll get more of in the next book.
Currently reading:
A Dead Red Oleander, by R. P. Dahlke, another mystery I downloaded for free from Amazon (pointers from the BookBuB emails). I think the author may be aiming for humor in some places that miss for me; this is first person from the viewpoint of an amateur detective, who shows remarkably poor judgment about who to trust.
Likely to read next:
Probably another of Tove Jansson's Moomin books; I currently have two out from the library.
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