Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

The Plato papers : a novel / by Peter Ackroyd. - 1st ed. - London : Vintage, 2000. - 138 p. : ; 20 cm.

Plato, London's greatest orator at the turn of the thirty-eighth century, regularly expounds upon the absurdities of life in the Age of Mouldwarp, a period that stretched from A.D. 1500 to A.D. 2300; but a journey to the Underworld yields a shocking discovery and Plato winds up on trial for introducing uncertainty to the world.

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Fiction, English.
Philosophers--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.


Fantastic fiction.
Historical fiction.