Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett - Author of The Tainted Cup! — Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

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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