The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett

FoundrysideShorefallLocklandsby Robert Jackson BennettPublished by Del Rey I first became aware of Robert Jackson Bennett about ten years ago with City of Stairs, the first of his The Divine Cities trilogy. Blown away by the mix of high fantasy and industrial technology, I quickly devoured the rest of the series. More recently, I have been reading his latest series, Shadow of the Leviathan, which is an even more compelling combination of crazy fantasy concepts, political drama, and good old-fashioned whodunnits. Bennett's thing is worlds where magical forces and god-like beings exist (or once existed) but the humans have tamed that magic into kickstarting a magic-industrial revolution with functioning economies, strong central governments, and the bureaucracies that come with these. His later books in particular really have a solid sense of place and have interesting things to say about how humans interact with technology, even if that technology is fantastical. That's five books (the…

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