The Darkness that Comes Before

R. Scott Bakker

Original title: The darkness that comes before

earliest edition we have, 2003 Penguin USA, Inc., 2010

The Prince of Nothing

Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth—it's language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals—the kind of all-embracing universe that has thrilled readers of Stephen R Donaldson and George R.R. Martin.It's a wor...

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The Darkness that Comes Before edition · 2010 · Penguin USA, Inc. · 9781590203842
The darkness that comes before edition · 2004 · Overlook Press · 589 pages
The darkness that comes before edition · 2003 · Penguin Canada · 589 pages

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