Jeff'n'Scott

The irreplaceable Jeff VanderMeer sits down with the too-damned-clever R Scott Bakker over some tea, cakes and coloured fungi for a damned good chat about the final part of the seriously good Prince of Nothing series, The Thousandfold Thought, which is just about to hit the UK shelves courtesy of Orbit. Bakker delivers epic fantasy but (thankfully) he injects some serious weight and intelligence into them, meaning the reader gets what they want from a good fantasy without the accompanying pitfalls of generic clichés which can sometimes go along with the field. It is a nice, irreverent piece, taking in books, morality, ancient Samarkand and, naturally, squid as Jeff makes R Scott Bakker Walk The Plank.