An occasional exception would be fine with me, but let us use our words as often as possible. Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult LiteratureFor the first time, Jo Walton’s critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy ThessalyThe Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessityis available in softcover, in a single-volume trade paperback omnibusThe goddess Athena thought she was creating a utopia. I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone as much as possible. Are there titles in this list that you feel deserve more praise? Or any big omissions? Let us know! Highly recommended to anyone who’s looking for some horror stories to read, what with Halloween season coming up soon. Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is probably my favorite out of all of these (that I read anyway). There’s a few of the Avocado usual suspects ( Station Eleven, The Wayfarers series, Piranesi, obviously).

Sorcerer to the Crown/The True Queen – Zen Cho.The Interdependency (series) – John Scalzi.An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon.The Masquerade (series) – Seth Dickinson.This Is How You Lose the Time War – Max Gladstone.Machineries of Empire (series) – Yoon Ha Lee.Remembrance of Earth’s Past – Liu Cixin.Southern Reach (series) – Jeff Vandermeer.The Space Between Worlds – Micaiah Johnson.Wayward Children (series) – Seanan McGuire.Children of Time (duology) – Adrian Tchaikovsky.Lady Astronaut (series) – Mary Robinette Kowal.Her Body and Other Parties (short stories) – Carmen Maria Machado.Exhalation (short stories) – Ted Chiang.

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu.

The Divine Cities Trilogy – Robert Jackson Bennett.

The Age of Madness Trilogy – Joe Abercrombie.

The Imperial Radch Trilogy – Ann Leckie.

The difference between Plato’s Socrates and Xenophon’s is very instuctive. I have a complete Xenophon on my Kindle, and one day I’ll read more than the Socratic ones and the Anabasis. Apart from the Republic, the Penguin translations are good. The Jowett (linked above) has the great advantage of being free online, and generally the online free translations of Plato are pretty good, and the only reasonable way to get the obscure ones. Lindsay) translation is way better than the Penguin. I thoroughly recommend the new (2013) Loeb translation of The Republic, which is lucid and excellent and well worth the price. Finalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature For the first time, Jo Waltons critically acclaimed. There was one moment when I wanted to look up something and I realised there was Plato on absolutely every flat surface in my study - and that’s not taking into account anything on my e-reader, which has all of Plato and Xenophon conveniently in the original and in translation.

The thessaly trilogy by jo walton