[a website for the Editor and Narrator of the Circo del Herrero series]
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A lack of books like these is what got me so interested in B.L.A.’s works to begin with. Superb work.
[“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.]
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!
