[a website for the Editor and Narrator of the Circo del Herrero series]
There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I’ll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it’ll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
From Kora in Hell: Improvisations by William Carlos Williams.
One day, in a moment of philosophical puckishness, the time-travelling goddess Pallas Athene decides to put Plato to the test and create the Just City. She locates the City on a Mediterranean island and populates it with over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult from all eras of history . . . along with some handy robots from the far human future.
Meanwhile, Apollo – stunned by the realization that there are things that human beings understand better than he does – has decided to become a mortal child, head to Athene’s City and see what all the fuss is about.
Then Socrates arrives, and starts asking troublesome questions.
What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.
This review will contain SPOILERS
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I am a Classicist (well, ancient historian) by academic training, so when Tor said they were bringing out a book…
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Passive Guy on Shatzkin’s article:
“Everybody who believes that 80% of the authors publishing with Big Publishing are not expected to earn out their advances, please raise your hands.
And the price-fixing that the Price-fix Six engaged in with Amazon is the very definition of cartel behavior.”
Read the post on The Passive Voice.
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]
Today’s Featured Authors: B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler.
An excerpt from THE AUTOMATION can be found on Susan Leigh Noble’s Blog today. Click the link to read!
