The Judging Eye

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| caption = First UK edition

| author = R. Scott Bakker

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| cover_artist = Larry Rostant

| country = Canada

| language = English

| series = Aspect-Emperor

| genre = Fantasy novel

| publisher = Overlook Press (US)
& Orbit (UK)

| release_date = 2009

| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 448 (paperback)

| isbn = 1590202929

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| preceded_by = The Thousandfold Thought

| followed_by = The White-Luck Warrior

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The Judging Eye is the first book in the Aspect-Emperor series by R. Scott Bakker. It was published on January 15, 2009 in the UK and on February 19, 2009 in the USA.{{cite web|title=Review: The Judging Eye|url=http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2008/11/judging-eye.html|website=Pat's Fantasy Hotlist|accessdate=28 November 2014}}

Events take place 20 years after the conclusion of the Prince of Nothing trilogy. Anasûrimbor Kellhus now rules the Three Seas as Aspect-Emperor, and has launched The Great Ordeal - an assault on Golgotterath and The Consult by all of the nations of the Three Seas. Drusas Achamian, the former Mandate Schoolman, is in hiding, obsessed with trying to determine Kellhus' origins.[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1841495379 The Judging Eye on Amazon UK]