<b>"The best novel of the year, and one that hints at greater things to come. . .Bakker has reminded readers why he is in the upper echelon of 21st Century writers."-<i>SFFWorld</i></b><br><br> Widely praised by reviewers and a growing body of fans, Bakker has already established the reputation as one of the smartest writers in the fantasy genre, a line stretching from Peake to Tolkein. Now he returns to The Prince of Nothing universe with the long-awaited <i>The Judging Eye</i>, the first book in an all- new series. Set twenty years after the end of <i>The Thousandfold Thought</i>, Bakker delves even further into his richly imagined universe of myth, violence, and sorcery, and fully remolds the fantasy genre to broaden the scope of intricacy and meaning. R. Scott Bakker has once again written a fantasy novel that defies all expectations and rewards the reader with an experience unlike any to be had in the canon of today's literature. <br><br>