R. Scott Bakker





R. Scott Bakker

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in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
February 02, 1967

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Richard Scott Bakker, who writes as R. Scott Bakker and as Scott Bakker, is a novelist whose work is dominated by a large series informally known as the The Second Apocalypse which Bakker began developing whilst as college in the 1980s. The series was originally planned to be a trilogy, with the first two books entitled The Prince of Nothing and The Aspect-Emperor. However, when Bakker began writing the series in the early 2000s, he found it necessary to split each of the three novels into its own sub-series to incorporate all of the characters, themes and ideas he wished to explore. Bakker originally conceived of seven books: a trilogy and two duologies. This later shifted to two trilogies, with the acknowledgement that the third series ma...more


R. Scott Bakker isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

First, I wanted to mention some excellent BBT related reflections that I think are worth linking: “The Blind Mind-unmaker” at Speculum Criticum, and “Speculative Posthumanism” at Steven Craig Hickman’s noir-realism (for my money the best post-postie site on the web).


Before beginning this Reply, I need to thank Ben, not only for the uniformly wonderful posts he’s afforded us all, but also for th...

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Average rating: 3.84 · 17,171 ratings · 849 reviews · 12 distinct works · Similar authors
The Darkness That Comes Bef...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 6,123 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions
The Warrior Prophet (The Pr...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 4,300 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions
The Thousandfold Thought (T...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 3,277 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions
The Judging Eye (Aspect-Emp...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,648 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
The White Luck Warrior (Asp...
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Neuropath
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Light, Time, and Gravity
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

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