In part, The Prince of Nothing is about the dialogue between these two species of faith, the one that identifies itself with doubt and remains open t… - R. Scott Bakker

Consciousness is something hooked across the top of your nose, like glasses, only as thick as the cosmos.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

Johnston's picture of intentionally rising from the cracks and gaps of an intrinsically contradictory reality happens to be the very ontological trope I use to structure the fantasy world of The Second Apocalypse! The ontological formula he hopes will force change on science is the same ontological formula I use to identify my fiction as fantasy fiction. One of my goals in my epic fantasy series is to demonstrate the seamless nature of the fit between Continental philosophical concepts and magical realities, to explore the affinities one finds in theological and new age appropriations of Continental conceptualities. To show the degree to which humanistic discourse belongs to prescientific cultural ecologies, and so examine the inevitability of its obsolescence.