Foundryside
by Robert Jackson Bennett · first published 2018
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A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest police officer to stop an ancient evil ritual that endangers thousands of lives.
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…to read. Do you have any favorite SF/F books that are less well known? Here's a few dozen or so of my favorites. I'd love to hear what HN thinks is good fantasy! My recs (in no particular order): - Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett -- heist novel with talking objects! - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente -- David Bowie meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! - The Sacred Throne series by Myke Cole (book…
on “Top Fantasy Series to battle quarantine boredom” ↗Foundryside from Robert J. Benett - it's a fantasy novel where magic system is based upon reverse engineering power words and jealusly keeping them secret from other trade organizations. Magic in that world is literally…
on “Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018?” ↗…Hod King (The Books of Babel, #3) by Bancroft, Josiah, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32998292-the-hod-king - Recursion by Crouch, Blake, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42046112-recursion - Foundryside (Founders, #1) by Bennett, Robert Jackson, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173847-foundryside - The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) by Liu, Cixin, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-...…
on “Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2019?” ↗I just learned of Unsong today and will be reading it. The premise though sounds similar to Foundryside, where objects can be “scribed” to change their behavior. A wheel could be told, “the force of gravity is always at a forward angle,” and it would roll forward on its own. It would also pick up speed…
on “Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)” ↗This really reminds me of how one of the protagonists gets past the gates in Foundryside/Shorefall (novel by Robert Jackson Bennett).
on “Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password” ↗