![]() ![]() ![]() Robert has taken a keen love of fantasy and an understanding of the genre and mixed it with a social conscience. Reading Bennett’s stories, you get the overall feeling that the human condition and how that condition reflects on other citizens are at the forefront of his mind in his stories. ![]() And we never note how much of it we’re spending, unless it happens to be our own.”įoundryside is the first book of a new trilogy by author Robert Jackson Bennett, whose previous works include The Divine Cities trilogy. Humanity seems most eager to use this latter currency. And finally, sometimes it is paid in blood. Other times, it is paid in time and sweat. What was once thought of as a non-marketable story in the fantasy genre is now just another Tuesday, and we are better for it as readers. Writers, instead of being pigeonholed in a particular style, now take their ideas to new levels by branching out and combining types. But now, 60 years later, since Lord of the Rings, fantasy is a much broader and more complicated genre. The genre pioneered by our lord and savior, J.R.R Tolkien. When people think of fantasy as a genre, often, they think of high fantasy. Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett is a story that blurs the lines between science fiction and fantasy in his steampunkesque fantasy novel. ![]()
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