The Just City (44 page)

English has issues with “C.” I've tried to avoid them by transliterating the Greek kappa as K, hence Sokrates. The only place you're going to find a C in a name is with Ficino, where it is pronounced as an Italian “ch,” like finch. Ch is always hard, as in Bach or loch.

 

B
OOKS BY
J
O
W
ALTON

The King's Peace

The King's Name

The Prize in the Game

Tooth and Claw

Farthing

Ha'penny

Half a Crown

Lifelode

Among Others

What Makes This Book So Great

My Real Children

The Just City

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J
O
W
ALTON
won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel
Among Others
. Before that, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel
Tooth and Claw
won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. The novels of her Small Change sequence—
Farthing,
Ha'penny,
and
Half a Crown
—have won widespread acclaim. A native of Wales, Walton lives in Montreal.

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

THE JUST CITY

 

Copyright © 2014 by Jo Walton

 

All rights reserved.

 

Cover photograph by Richard Nowitz / Getty Images

 

Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

 

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ISBN 978-0-7653-3266-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-0082-3 (e-book)

 

e-ISBN 9781466800823

 

First Edition: January 2015