R. Scott Bakker

[Dharmakirti]

R. Scott Bakker is a Canadian writer with literary ambitions and believes genre is the place where those ambitions can most likely be achieved. His idea is that literature is about challenging and provoking an audience...that literature DOES something. His critique against literary culture is that it no longer does anything excpet ape what has come before. Literary writers are not producing literary effects but only producing entertainment for the educated. See for example his review of DFW's Infinite Jest: Alas Poor Wallace: A Review of Infinite Jest

Most of his output is in the form of epic fantasy, but he's also written a sci-fi suspense/thriller and a detective novel. All of his work deals with the nature of consciousness and belief. He ranks up near the top of my list of favorite writers (acutally, right now, he might be at the top of that list).

He has published 5 (of a planned 8 or 9) novels in his ongoing Second Apocalypse series wich is broken out into 3 separate collection, The Prince of Nothing, The Aspect Emperor and an unamed third collection.

The Prince of Nothing series consists of:
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Warrior Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought

The Aspect Emperor series consists of:
The Judging Eye
White Luck Warrior

Other works:
Neuropath
Disciple of the Dog


His blog:
R. Scott Bakker's blog, Three Pound Brain (http://rsbakker.wordpress.com/) has a number of essays, a couple of short stories and even the serially posted novel Light Time and Gravity. His blog mainly contains his musings on philosophy and literary culture, the most important is probably his paper explaining his theory of consiciousness called: The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness.