The authors went on to write several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that dealt further with the themes of the trilogy. In 1986 the trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. In 1984 they were published as an omnibus edition and are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The parts were first published as three separate volumes starting in September 1975. The trilogy comprises three parts which contain five books and appendices: The Eye in the Pyramid (first two books), The Golden Apple (third and part of fourth book), Leviathan (part of fourth and all of fifth book, and the appendices). It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. 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, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975. Also, this might be the only book that graphically describes a man having sexual relations with a giant golden apple.1975 (individual volumes) 1984 (collected edition)ġ-56731-237-3 (hardback collected edition), ISBN 1-85487-574-4 (paperback collected edition)
Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley, and the somewhat fictitious cult of Discordia. I first read this book when I was 19 and it was my gateway drug into William S. 'Trust no one!' is the name of the game in this mental landscape. The authors (Robert Shea as more transcribing Robert Wilson's pseudo scholarly rants on the Illuminati and other drug blasted notions) shift constantly between time lines and characters to the point where time looses its meaning and everything from a squirrel eating a nut to resurrected Nazis attacking hippies are connected into one organic 3-D picture in your head. Am I me, or are you not you, or are you me, and other gibberish. A work of literary fiction (but is it fiction?) that induces not only extreme paranoia but confusion of self as well.
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