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Hemendra Seth hseth — In anticipation of Bakker's next book, I want to explain my passion for him. Most of my favorite fantasy authors are ur-nerds, a crucial part of what make me like 'em. C.S. Lewis was a medieval literature professor. Tolkien was a philologist. Jaqueline Carey is a religious studies Ph.D.; they're all aesthetes, and their fondness for and intense familiarity with some stripe of arcana is exactly what allows them to create such rich, engaging alternate realities. Bakker's a Ph.D. too, but of a more worldly stripe; his area of expertise is psychology. While the Prince of Nothing series is an impressively, even excessively detailed alternate universe, that's not what makes it an interesting read. In fact, that's probably what makes it, for many people, unreadable. Nope, the appeal lies in that these books are nothing less than Bakker's brilliant and very dark treatise on the relationship between culture, self-image, emotion, and behavior. Heavy slice, right? No wonder these books are so long. Sure, you've got the regulation destroy-the-world baddies, and they are thrillingly, uniquely bad. You've got standard issue phenomenal cosmic powers, and they dazzle appropriately. But the fantasy set-pieces (aka the plot) are just there to provide clothing for a story about the human mind and heart, and how a clever and talented person can manipulate both.