Robert Jackson Bennett

Bennett at the Texas Book Festival (2017)

Robert Jackson Bennett (* 1984 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ) is an American fantastic writer.

Life

Bennett was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1984 and grew up in Katy , Texas . He studied at the University of Texas and now lives in Austin . His individual novels are difficult to assign to a single genre, they adopt elements from both horror and science fiction and fantasy literature. The framework for action is always the US past. With his trilogy The Divine Cities Bennett turned more to fantasy literature, and he describes The Founders Trilogy , which began in 2018, as a cyberpunk story in the guise of high fantasy .

His debut novel, Mr. Shivers , won the Shirley Jackson Award and the Sydney J. Bounds Award for the best young talent at the British Fantasy Awards . For his second novel, The Company Man , he received an Edgar Award in 2012 . In 2013 he received the Shirley Jackson Award again for American Elsewhere .

Works

Single novels

• Mr. Shivers (2010).
  • Mr. Shivers , 2011, Piper Verlag, ISBN 978-3-492-26753-3
• The Company Man (2011).
• The Troupe (2012).
  • Silenus , 2012, Piper Verlag, ISBN 978-3-492-26870-7
• American Elsewhere (2013).
• Vigilance (2019).

The Divine Cities

• City of Stairs (2014)
  • The city of a thousand stairs , 2017, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 978-3-404-20861-6
• City of Blades (2016)
  • The city of dead blades , 2017, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 978-3-404-20871-5
• City of Miracles (2017)
  • The city of dreaming children , 2018, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 978-3-404-20890-6

The Founders Trilogy

• Foundryside (2018)

Web links

• Official website of Bennett
• Literature by and about Robert Jackson Bennett in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Jackson Bennett in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Robert Jackson Bennett in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About Robert Jackson Bennett. In: Piper Verlag. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ America, With Tentacles: Speculative fiction writer Robert Jackson Bennett travels back to the future. In: Austin Chronicle. February 15, 2013, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Exclusive: Robert Jackson Bennett on industrialized magic in his new novel, Foundryside. In: Syfywire. August 21, 2018, accessed March 3, 2019 .