Robert Jackson Bennett. Broadway, $15 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-41971-9
Bennett’s astonishingly good sequel to 2014’s City of Stairs makes a riveting and often heartbreaking case against war. The Continent, a land that’s somewhat like Russia, once colonized Saypur, a land that’s somewhat like India; then the Saypuri...
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Robert Jackson Bennett, Author . Orbit $19.99 (327p) ISBN 978-0-316-05468-3
Set during the Great Depression and reading like a collaboration between Stephen King and John Steinbeck, this remarkably assured first novel relates a good man’s desperate travels through the ruins of the American heartland on the trail of...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-316-05470-6
The genius of a single 19th-century visionary financier transforms the early 20th century into a grimy, corrupt setting in Bennett's (Mr. Shivers) latest. In a world dominated by California's powerful and secretive McNaughton Corporation, the...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-18752-7
Bennett (The Company Man) melds an energetic reimagining of medieval myth with an engrossing backdrop of impresarios, puppeteers, and amazing feats of strength in this tale of turn-of-the-century vaudevillians. The performances of Hieronomo “Harry”...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (688p) ISBN 978-0-316-20020-2
Bennett (The Troupe) gives the idealized image of the American dream a pan-dimensional twist with this alien invasion tale, part Bradbury and part L’Engle with a dash of Edward Scissorhands. Mona Bright, a former cop with a tragic past, inherits her
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Crown/Broadway, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-8041-3717-1
Bennett (American Elsewhere) ventures into secondary-world fantasy in this action-packed, occasionally numinous, noir-like novel, which combines metaphysical and geopolitical observations. The city of Bulikov, once the sacred seat of a brutal,...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Broadway, $16 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-41973-3
Bennett concludes his Divine Cities trilogy (City of Stairs, City of Blades) with a stunning and heartbreaking tale of sacrifice amid magic and spycraft. Sigrud je Harkvaldsson has spent years in the wilderness after the death of his daughter. When...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Crown, $27 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6036-6
Bennett’s stunning fantasy, the first in a series, is set in Tevanne, a city-state run by four merchant houses, funded by pillaging nearby lands and powered by scrivers who use sigils to make devices that defy reality. When talented thief Sancia...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, $28 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6038-0
The thoughtful second installment to Bennett’s Founders fantasy trilogy (after 2018’s Foundryside) kicks off as a clever caper but swiftly changes tone, shifting into supernatural horror. Sancia Grado, an ex-thief able to “flex” her mind to see...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Subterranean, $40 (120p) ISBN 978-1-59606-987-9
The devil’s in the details in this eerie novella from Bennett (Shorefall), which pulls successful scares from familiar horror tropes. The Pugh brothers are in dire personal territory—one, the unnamed narrator, is about to finalize his divorce; the...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, $28.99 (560p) ISBN 978-1-984820-67-9
Gods collide in the high octane finale to Bennett’s epic fantasy Founders Trilogy, set eight years after the events of Shorefall. The people of the former city of Tevanne have become a collective intelligence searching for a doorway that will allow...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-9848-2070-9
Bennett (the Founders trilogy) brilliantly melds genres in this exceptional mystery-fantasy, the first in his Shadow of the Leviathan series. Dinios Kol has been tapped to serve as the new assistant to Ana Dolabra, an eccentric investigator with a...
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Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-72382-1
Bennett’s wonderfully clever and compulsively readable sequel to 2024’s The Tainted Cup offers another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection, featuring off-beat sleuths who call to mind Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin but operate...
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