{"id":5410,"date":"2018-05-22T07:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:45:14","slug":"pr-foundryside-by-robert-jackson-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/industry-news\/press-release\/pr-foundryside-by-robert-jackson-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"PR: Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Foundryside,<\/a>Master fantasy novelist Robert Jackson Bennett, who has just been named a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series and the 2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. He’s is at it again with the first book in a series that will top everything he’s done before. With FOUNDRYSIDE (Crown; on sale August 21, 2018)<\/strong>, Bennett brings us a nimble-witted, complex female protagonist who uses her strange gifts to survive in a world where magic–for all its glorious uses–has become an instrument of economic control. What happens when magic and capitalism collide?<\/p>\n

In the past, Bennett has been lauded for breathing fresh life into the genre and for his clever explorations of politics, power dynamics, and social systems: The Seattle Times<\/em> called City of Stairs<\/em> \u201can entertaining yet thought-provoking experiment in racial reversals\u201d and the New York Times Book Review<\/em> wrote, \u201cThe book is labeled epic fantasy, but there\u2019s no hint of staid European medievalism in its pages.\u201d Now, in FOUNDRYSIDE, Bennett once again brings his trademark combination of imaginative world-building and a fast-paced plot, with an undercurrent of social conflict.<\/p>\n

Magic can be monetized. That\u2019s a fact in Tevanne, a city that runs on industrialized magic. The city has grown rich thanks to its mastery of a magical technology known as \u201cscriving.\u201d Or more precisely, the four merchant houses who monopolize that technology have grown rich. Sancia Grado, a former slave whose ordeals have made her an unnaturally talented thief, steals from these elite houses to survive. When she finds herself in possession of a powerful magical artifact, she must form an unlikely alliance to confront a common threat–a plot that would let Tevanne’s masters overwrite reality itself. The mechanics of the magic system in FOUNDRYSIDE are ingeniously based on computer coding and hacking, a parallel sure to delight tech-obsessed readers. And for those looking for a romance, Sancia\u2019s budding love interest is–refreshingly–not the one you might expect.<\/p>\n

The first in an ambitious new fantasy series from Robert Jackson Bennett, FOUNDRYSIDE will resonate with readers who love sharp, socially interested fantasy authors like N.K. Jemisin; clever magic system builders like Brandon Sanderson; and masters of faction-based warfare like George R.R. Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Master fantasy novelist Robert Jackson Bennett, who has just been named a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series and the 2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. He’s is at it again with the first book in a series that will top everything he’s done before. With …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1059],"tags":[1178,290,1313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}