By Jo Walton
From acclaimed, award-winning writer Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a story of gods and people, and the extraordinary issues they need to examine from each other. 20 years have elapsed because the occasions of The simply City. the town, based via the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, geared up at the rules espoused in Plato’s Republic and populated via humans from all eras of human background, has now cut up into 5 towns, and low-level armed clash among them isn't unheard-of.
The god Apollo, dwelling (by his personal selection) a human existence as "Pythias" within the urban, his actual id identified purely to some, is now married and the daddy of numerous young children. yet a sad loss reasons him to turn into ate up with the need for revenge. Being Apollo, he is going dealing with it in a likely rational and systematic manner, yet it’s glaring, fairly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he's unhinged with grief.
Along with Arete and a number of other of his sons, plus a boatload of different volunteers--including the now beautifully elderly Marsilio Ficino, the nice humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo is going crusing into the mysterious jap Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to determine what they could find—possibly the fellow who could have triggered his nice grief, in all likelihood groups of the earliest humans to name themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the remainder of the day trip will discover…will switch every little thing.
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He spun around in a circle of fury, lashing out with both fists. "MOTHERFUCKER! We almost bought it! " Barris, standing visible by the side of the freeway with all its heavy traffic whizzing by, got out a little horn snuffbox of death tabs and took several. He passed the snuffbox to Luckman, who took a few, then passed it to Arctor. "Maybe that's what's fucking us up," Arctor said, declining irritably. " "Dope can't screw up an accelerator linkage and carb-idle adjustment," Barris said, still holding the snuffbox out to Arctor.
He'll flash on that and rap at us for days. Somebody got in who was hip to his device and cleverly unplugged it. So, he decided, if they find it unplugged I hope they think to plug it in, and not only that, make it run right. In fact, what they really should do is test out his whole detection system, run it through its cycle as thoroughly as they do their own, be absolutely certain it functions perfectly, and then wind it back to a blank state, a tablet on which nothing is inscribed but on which something would for sure be had anyone--themselves, for example--entered the house.
They may have left some. And he thought, Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then, briefly. Under very specialized conditions, such as today. Next thing, Barris will be reasoning that I lured everyone out of the house deliberately to permit secret intruders to accomplish their thing here. And later on he will discern why and who and everything else, and in fact maybe he already has. Had a while ago, in fact; long-enough ago to initiate sabotage and destruct actions on the cephscope, car, and God knows what else.