# Robert Jackson Bennett on Reddit (u/Robertjbennett)

Part of Creators on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/creators-on-reddit/robert-jackson-bennett

Robert Jackson Bennett: Fantasy author, The Divine Cities and The Tainted Cup.

- Reddit account: [u/Robertjbennett](https://www.reddit.com/user/Robertjbennett/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [Their 2019 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/bs7hlp/hello_i_am_fantasy_author_robert_jackson_bennett/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/Fantasy (612), r/books (105), r/writing (3), r/StinkyDragonPodcast (2), r/sciencefiction (1), r/IAmA (1)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2012 to 2026
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jackson_Bennett

## Moments

### u/Robertjbennett in r/Fantasy, May 23, 2019 · Advice

Replying to a redditor:

> Hey! Thanks for doing an AMA. What do you think the trick is for making imaginary cities feel tangible and solid?

> For example, the reason the Brooklyn Dodgers are called that is because back at the turn of the century, the city started using electrified trolleys, which moved far, far faster than the horse drawn trolleys. Citizens simply could not conceive of a vehicle moving at 20 miles an hour. They didn't have the societal programming built in to make them aware. So pedestrians died by the dozens, crushed by electrified trolleys hurtling through the streets. So when Brooklyn got a baseball team, they called them the Trolley Dodgers, and eventually lost the trolley part.

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Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/bs7hlp/comment/eojtarb/ · 106 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/Robertjbennett in r/Fantasy, Apr 22, 2025 · Lore answer

Replying to a redditor:

> I am lithuanian and I have noticed that many characters in your books (at least in Tainted Cup and Drop of Corruption) have names that are nouns in lithuanian language. For example: Sunus Pyktis (Son Anger), Kardas (Sword), Alaus Vanduo (Beer’s Water). Is it just a random choice…

> You are dead on. The Rathras characters all pull from Lithuanian words. Kurmini pulls from Kazakh, and Tala from Latin and Greek. The Yarrow language is a bastardized version of Urdu and Punjabi. The races and cultures that use these languages, of course, are a total mismatch for their real-world counterparts.

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Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1k562j8/comment/moh4skw/ · 140 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/Robertjbennett in r/Fantasy, Feb 8, 2024 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

> At what point when writing 'City of Stairs' did you decide that the world you'd created needed/deserved another book? It's a fantastic trilogy that I've read twice now.

> My editor said, "The fans are saying they all want another, and we agree," and I said, "Are there dollars?" and he said, "Yes, dollars," and I said, "I like those things, so okay." Weirdly this decision became one of the more pivotal moments of my adulthood and writing career.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1alwymm/comment/kpje9fp/ · 39 points as of Nov 7, 2026