R. Scott Bakker

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Richard Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area, and in 1986 attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in Literature, and later an MA in Theory and Criticism. After nearly completing, but ultimately abandoning, a Ph.D in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University (i.e. opting to devote himself to "the craft of literature" rather than "the crap of academia"), he moved to London Ontario, where he now lives with his wife.

His first work is his high fantasy trilogy, The Prince of Nothing, which is composed of:

Further books are expected to explore the Prince of Nothing universe, although they will take place well after the trilogy's conclusion and involve some new characters. The next sequence, The Aspect-Emperor, will begin twenty years after the conclusion of The Thousandfold Thought.

Scott Bakker has also completed a science fiction thriller entitled Neuropath, which he hopes to publish in 2008.

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