![]() This new book was described as a story about an experiment by the Greek gods Athene and Apollo to create The Just City detailed in Plato’s The Republic. Like with Tooth and Claw, I was seduced by the concept alone. The Just City was the title, and it was to be the first in a trilogy of books called Thessaly. I was sold immediately, and after reading it, declared Walton to be one of the freshest voices in the well-tilled soil of fantasy and vowed to keep an eye out for new books by her.įor some reason, after being wowed and won over by Tooth and Claw, I did not go on to check out other Walton works-that is, until 2015 when her newest work started to ripple quietly through the fantasy grapevines again. It was described as an English romance in the vein of Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage, except that the protagonists are dragons that speak and behave like they belong in Victorian drawing rooms, dealing with family drama over inheritance, marriages, and propriety, while at the same time, remain red in “tooth and claw” and engage in cannibalism-and Walton balanced both halves deftly, and it manages to be an excellent mirror (the funhouse variety) for many human societal flaws. There was a time in my life when I was going through the list of past winners and nominees of The World Fantasy Award, and saw that the 2004 winner was Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton. ![]() ![]() “You can’t trust everything that ass Plato wrote,” Sokrates said. ![]()
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