Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett - Author of The Tainted Cup!
Robert Jackson Bennett, Hugo-winning author of The Tainted Cup, A Drop of Corruption, The Founders Trilogy, The Divine Cities Trilogy, and more.
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Robert Jackson Bennett, Cody Troyer, Brent Gaisford
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Show Notes
We got to interview Robert fresh from his Hugo win for The Tainted Cup - by far the best SFF book of last year! We couldn't be more excited to talk about it with him and get our burning questions answered - will there be more about the leviathans in the rest of the series?!
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We talked with Robert about:
- 00:00 Intro
- 1:07 Winning the Hugo for best novel
- 3:04 Brent the hat-eater
- 4:22 Why plant life as technology?
- 7:58 Bringing modernity into fantasy
- 10:49 A fantasy empire that's the good guys
- 16:05 Ana Dolabra's origins
- 19:26 Will we learn more about the titans?
- 21:07 Teasers about the 3rd book
- 22:08 RJB's other fantasy series
- 23:53 Mild spoilers - Din and Ana's quirks