The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton

[psocoptera]

!!! I have so many thoughts and I'm not sure what I actually want to write down? What I really want is to sit in someone's living room with four or five other people who have read these and argue for hours like college students again. Book club at alum weekend? There's such a fascinating kind of nostalgia here - the nostalgia for that intellectualism - I was not so into the SFF nostalgia in Among Others but boy does Walton get me here. Wow, is this series interesting. The last one comes out at the end of June.

Augh, if I only Hugo-nominate one of Just City and Philosopher Kings, which one would I pick? PK made the Locus List, so might have more traction, but the central idea was fresher in JC. But PK has plenty going on, so, gah, hard call!

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[ruthling.livejournal.com]

are these books you own? can I borrow them?

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I got them through the library, through the "Axis 360" app. So you can borrow them, but not from me. :)

[gallian.livejournal.com]

Finally got my hands on these. (Thanks so much for pointing out the Axis360 app - I'd been using Overdrive, which doesn't have the same section despite pulling from the same library collection - a confusion I try not to think about to hard.)

Yes, these books feel remarkably like sitting down and having/listening to a conversation with Thrud. (Which makes sense, since the author dedicates the books to her, and says in the comments that they were deeply influenced by doing exactly that.) I don't know if you ever had that opportunity while we were in college.

Thanks again for pointing me at a resource where I could actually read them!