If you haven't read Blood Meridian, I would do so ASAP.
This. Very different from Bakker in prose style, but the two are soul mates when it comes to interpreting a world.
Blood Meridian is one of the greatest novels ever written.
...though I do wish the bastard would use goddamn quotation marks.
Just finished Blindsight - Peter Watts. Very much can see the similarities between Bakker's TDTCB and Watts opening sequence. Rough and mysterious in the same style.
Will need to check this out.
10 years ago I had not heard of Bakker, or Hyperion. I still thought RA Salvatore and the Forgotten Realms were the best fantasy ever(!), lol
I discovered Bakker after largely abandoning fantasy, having grown tired of the trite worlds of Salvatore, Weis & Hickman, etc., and seeing series such as
Wheel of Time degenerating into endless money-printing doorstops waging a war against the need for a plot to have momentum so long as each volume hits the bestseller list. Whatever review/recommendation I found framed it as Nietzsche and Frank Herbert offering their version of
Lord of the Rings, which seemed right up my alley. Reinvigorated my faith in the genre's potential. (I forget exactly when I found the series. It was after TTT was published, but not by long, I believe. Would have been '05-'06 based on where I was living at the time.)
I forget how or when I stumbled onto
Hyperion, but it was some time ago.
...I need to find more new books.