Sequel to "House of chains" in the author's acclaimed fantasy cycle. Erikson lives in Winnipeg.
Content warning philosophical paragraph in chapter 5
Udinaas had known many for whom certainty was a god, the only god, no matter the cast of its features. And he had seen the manner in which such belief made the world seem simple, where all was divisible by the sharp cleaving of cold judgment, after which no mending was possible.
— Midnight tides : a tale of the Malazan book of the fallen by Steven Erikson (Page 2,050)
Erikson is really investigating modernity in this book huh? This quote specifically seems to talk about an undue reliance on, or reverence of science and rationality.