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R. Scott Bakker

Born

in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

February 02, 1967

Website

http://www.rscottbakker.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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 at 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 may ...more

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Egnor Confounded

Once again, in midst of all the ad hominem nonsense coming from the Trump-Newscorp-Combine, we find another theorist, this time neuroscientist (and creationist) Michael Egnor, embracing an ad hominem dismissal of eliminativism on the Mind Matters podcast, which has been partially transcribed and posted under the title, “Why Eliminative Materialism Cannot Be A Good Theory of Mind.”

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R. Scott Bakker’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 68,737 ratings · 3,620 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 21,545 ratings — published 2003 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 14,501 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3) 3.94 avg rating — 12,105 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Judging Eye (Aspect-Emperor, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 6,588 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White Luck Warrior (Aspect-Emperor, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 5,772 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 2,738 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unholy Consult (Aspect-Emperor, #4) 3.89 avg rating — 2,341 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neuropath 3.52 avg rating — 1,639 ratings — published 2008 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disciple of the Dog 3.42 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The False Sun 4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by R. Scott Bakker

The Second Apocalypse (10 books)
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3.94 avg rating — 65,629 ratings

The Prince of Nothing (3 books)
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3.90 avg rating — 48,176 ratings

The Aspect-Emperor (4 books)
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4.04 avg rating — 17,439 ratings

Disciple Manning (1 book)
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3.42 avg rating — 598 ratings

Atrocity Tales (2 books)
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4.02 avg rating — 187 ratings

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Quotes by R. Scott Bakker (?)

“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

tags: philosophy

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

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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

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Low Town by Daniel Polansky

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The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker

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Darkness Weaves by Karl Edward Wagner

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