The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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Goldwag: Books that inspire me...history himself, when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa calling for his execution. Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY: THE EYE IN THE PYRAMID, THE GOLDEN APPLE, and LEVIATHAN is a wildly erudite,... In this article: James Randi, Robert Anton Wilson, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Martin Gardner, Illuminatus!, and The Crying of Lot 49 |
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Guardian Unlimited | November 04, 2009
John Joyce obituary
...actor best known for his work with Ken Campbell and his role in Comedians John Joyce as Saul Goodman with Prunella Gee as Eris in Illuminatus! with the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool in 1976 John Joyce, who has died aged 70...
In this article: Ken Campbell, Comedians, Illuminatus!, Richard Eyre, Saul Goodman, Melbourne University, and John McGrath
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Robert Anton Wilson
...first novel, written before the release of Illuminatus!, which includes many of his same characters) and The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Illuminatus! won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for science fiction in 1986, has many international...
In this article: Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Timothy Leary, Illuminati, James Joyce, Douglas Rushkoff, Trilogy, Robert Shea, and Mathematics
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Malaclypse the Younger
...(short Mal-2) was a pen name used by Gregory Hill in writing the Principia Discordia. He was also adapted as a character in The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Hill was a comrade of Kerry Wendell Thornley (aka Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). During...
In this article: Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry Wendell Thornley, Illuminatus!, Western Union, and Discworld
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
23 Enigma
...to as the Law of Fives . The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's '' (therein called "The Law of...
In this article: Robert Anton Wilson, Trilogy, Illuminatus!, Principia Discordia, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carrey, Eris, Fortean Times, and Robert Shea
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I4U News | October 18, 2009
The Secret World: A Class-less MMORPG?
...in the pre-historic world of Robert Howard, TSW is a cyberpunk/conspiracy game that seems to be largely based off of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy. In TSW you'll have a choice of three different conspiratorial organizations to...
In this article: The Secret World, Mmorpg, Shadowrun, Funcom, Illuminati, WoW, Illuminatus trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson, and Robert Howard
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Illuminati (game)
Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world...
In this article: Illuminati, Steve Jackson Games, Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, Zurich, Origins Award, and Play-by-mail game
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Wikipedia | October 13, 2009
Operation Mindfuck
...religion. The concept was developed by Kerry Thornley and Robert Anton Wilson in 1968 and given its name by Wilson and Robert Shea in The Illuminatus! Trilogy. It is most often manifested as a decentralized campaign of civil disobedience,...
In this article: Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson, Web 2.0, Kerry Thornley, and Robert Shea
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Guardian Unlimited | October 11, 2009
Ken Campbell: a much-missed friend
...eventually became a part of theatrical folklore. In 1976, Ken started the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool; his production there of Illuminatus! transferred to London the next year, to open the Cottesloe auditorium at the National...
In this article: Ken Campbell, Dog, Liverpool, Ferret, Bill Nighy, and School of Night
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
...three volumes or parts (the front covers were titled Illuminatus! Part I The Eye in the Pyramid, Illuminatus! Part II The Golden Apple and Illuminatus! Part III Leviathan) refer to recurring symbols of elements of the plot. The Eye in the...
In this article: Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminati, Robert Shea, Leviathan, Hagbard Celine, Trilogy, Principia Discordia, and Dell
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Boing Boing | September 17, 2009
Zombie shooting-range targets
...several in inexplicable Nazi uniforms. Good practice, I suppose, for the forthcoming Nazi zombie uprising. Anyone who's read The Illuminatus Trilogy know there are hordes of Nazi Zombies waiting for us in the watery depths of a lake in...
In this article: Cory Doctorow
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives and jumps around in time. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology and Discordianism.
The trilogy comprises the books The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. They were first published starting in September 1975, as three separate volumes, and in 1984 as an omnibus; they are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction, in 1986. The authors went on to create several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that further discussed the themes of the trilogy, but no direct sequels were produced. Illuminatus! has been adapted for the stage, and has influenced several modern writers, musicians and games-makers. The popularity of the word "fnord" and the 23 enigma can both be attributed to the trilogy. It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code by decades.
- Name:
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Genre:
- Science fiction
- Written By:
- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- Published By:
- Dell Publishing
- Length:
- 805 pages (paperback collected edition)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Cover Artist:
- Carlos Victor (1975 paperbacks)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 1975 (individual volumes); 1984 (collected edition)
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