When Game of Thrones ends, either Joe Abercrombie's First Law series or R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing/Second Apocalypse will take its place. The former is more likely though because they won't have to do any extra writing to have prominent and badass female characters. Monza, Ferro, Ardee and so on ( Read more... )

"When Mimara asked for a third time what was the matter, he decided that he hated the young. Smooth faces and lithe strong limbs. Not to mention the certainty of ignorance. In his soul's eye he saw them doing jigs down blasted halls, while all he could do was hobble after them. Pompous wretches, he thought, with their dark hair and hundred-word ( Read more... )

R. Scott Bakker says what we're all thinking in this interview

Likewise, when does neural rewiring make a person not a person? You could cook up a thousand arguments, and you could probably - given how inclined we are to buy our own bullshit - convince yourself that this or that interpretation is God’s interpretation, or nature’s, or whatever. But ( Read more... )

R. Scott Bakker's Neuropath, Chapter 1.

I overstated the case. Anasurimbor Kellhus is a pre-industrial Tao*. Full-stop.

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Read: Thousandfold Thought and The Female Man. Goddamn Joanna Russ is angry. I can only say the highly defensive "I'm not like those other guys, 'kay?")

Reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison,

Will Read: Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund. He put ( Read more... )

Currently reading: The Thousandfold Thought, Book Three of the Prince of Nothing trilogy.

Randomly Bespattered Thoughts

- You know what this book is? Ultimately? It's Blindsight, tackled from an opposite angle. No, Blindsight is this book tackled from the other side of the coin, all for definitions of "this book" that really translate as "this ( Read more... )

Read: Android's Dream, Capacity and The Darkness That Comes Before aka Prince of Nothing Book #1.

Each year it seems, one writer captures my imagination and obsession. In 2004, it was Stross (with a side of Tabu). In 2005, it was Tabu (with a side of Bear). In 2006, it was Peter Watts, period.

2007? Definitely no-fooling without a doubt ... it's ( Read more... )