by Jo Walton
First published 2016
Apollo has reclaimed his divine nature, but his transformation comes at a precarious moment for the experimental cities on planet Plato. For generations, these communities have maintained their delicate society where mortals and immortals live side by side. Then a human spacecraft materializes in orbit above their world. The vessel's arrival shatters the careful equilibrium that has sustained their civilization. The cities face an unprecedented crisis as they must navigate between their complicated history and the unpredictable desires of the gods who shape their fate. Apollo and the other inhabitants must decide how far they will go to preserve what they have built. The survival of their utopian experiment hangs in the balance as divine whims collide with mortal determination in this final volume of Walton's trilogy.
Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, fantasy, speculative-fiction
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: divine-intervention, found-family
336 pages · Hardcover · Tor Books