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Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's stories of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from each other. A lot more than 65 years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City with an island in the Eastern Mediterranean, positioning it centuries before the Trojan Conflict, populating it with teachers and children from throughout human history and committing it to building a society based on the rules of Plato's Republic. One of the city's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in individual form. Sixty years ago the Just City schismed into five cities, each devoted to another version of the initial vision. Forty years ago the five cities were able to bring their squabbles to an in depth. But in consequence of their have difficulties, their presence finally came up to the interest of Zeus, who can't permit them to stay in deep antiquity, changing the course of human history. Convinced by Apollo to spare the cities, Zeus instead shifted everything on the island to the planet Plato, circling its distant sunlight. Now, more than a generation has exceeded. The cities are flourishing on Plato and even trading with multiple alien species. Then, on a single day, a couple of things happen. Pytheas dies as a people, returning immediately as Apollo in his full glory. And there's out of the blue a human dispatch in orbit around Plato - a dispatch from Earth.
