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Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett - Author of The Tainted Cup!

Episode Summary

Robert Jackson Bennett, Hugo-winning author of The Tainted Cup, A Drop of Corruption, The Founders Trilogy, The Divine Cities Trilogy, and more.

Episode 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