When someone asks you to picture a fantasy world, what often springs to mind is something like the works of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings or George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, with all the trappings of a pastoral England or medieval Europe. But recently, a number of authors have begun imagining fantasy with new perspectives, where their character’s motivations and story are rooted in more modern concerns. One such recent novel is Robert Jackson Bennett’s Foundryside, the first in a new trilogy that imagines magic almost as though it’s a type of artificial intelligence.
Foundryside was one of my picks for 2018’s best novels, because it has such an interesting take on how fantasy can operate. Certainly, it’s not the...
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