The Aspect-Emperor is a planned four-book series by R. Scott Bakker that takes place twenty years after his acclaimed series The Prince of Nothing.
The first book, The Judging Eye, was released on January 20, 2009.
The planned title of the second book was originally The Shortest Path. However, Bakker later confirmed that it would be called The White-Luck Warrior. It was published in April 2011 in Canada by Penguin Group Canada. It was published in the UK in May 2011, by Orbit Books and in the US by The Overlook Press.
The planned title of the third book was originally The Horns of Golgotterath, but is currently The Great Ordeal. The first draft was completed on October 1, 2013 and the book was published July 12, 2016.