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Title: Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy : "The Universe Next Door", "The Trick Top Hat", & "The Homing Pigeons" by Robert A. Wilson ISBN: 0-440-50070-2 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 October, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Reading on the Right Side of the Brain
Comment: Well, here we go again. This exasperating, drop-dead funny trilogy will either drive you crazy or confuse you mercilessly or possibly both (see below), but in any case, you were asking for it. Many of the characters--and some of the plot--of "Schrodinger's Cat" derive from "Illuminatus!", which should probably be read and well-digested before tackling the sequel.
Wilson was a prophet, making fun of blue-nosed anti-porn feminists long before it was cool, but also remained firmly entrenched in the times of his writing--Nixon and nuclear destruction don't pack quite the same punch in the days of Clinton and Y2K. Using his now rather shabby-seeming understanding of quantum mechanics, he wrote one book "under the influence" of the multiple-worlds model, one in which nonlocality is the ticket, and one which presumes that reality is created by observation (guess which!). It's all great fun, but ultimately not as satisfying as its predecessor.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Strange Changes of Schrodinger's Cat
Comment: When I first encountered the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, it was
in the form of the original Bantam paperbacks, now out of print.
The first volume I saw, "The Universe Next Door," scared the
bejeezus out of me with its quirky way of seeing reality, so
badly that I hastily put down the book and did not explore the
works of that author again for at least five years more. The
second encounter I had was with the paperback "The Trick Top
Hat," which I bought from a used book store. It opened me up
philosophically AND sexually--it had some very explicit erotic
references. Sadly, though the full text of "The Universe Next
Door" seems to have made the journey from 3-volume paperback to
1-volume Dell softcover intact, the same cannot be said of the
erotic passages in "The Trick Top Hat." Additionally, a great
deal of the material in the original paperback "The Homing
Pigeons" does not appear in the Dell softcover . . . although
Wilson had abandoned much of the frank eroticism of the "second"
book by then.
The disappearance of these words from the newer edition, and
the subsequent ventures of Wilson into being published by other,
much less well known publishers, are as mysterious to me as the
enigmas of Rennes-le-Chateau and the life of Sir Francis Dash-
wood. The Dell trade paperback version does not really suffer
in its creative genius by losing those many passages. But it
is simply inexplicable to me why they are not there.
Rating: 5
Summary: they're greeaaaaaaaaaaat
Comment: I don't know why people think that these books will make you insane, they can only open the eyes. I really loved the part where death and taxes become a thing of the past (and the government becomes useful).
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Title: The Illuminatus! Trilogy : The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 0440539811 Publisher: DTP Pub. Date: 01 December, 1983 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Principia Discordia , Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malacypse the Younger by Malaclypse, Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry W. Thornley, Loompanics Unlimited, Malaclypse the Younger ISBN: 1559500409 Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561840564 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561840718 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Illuminati Papers by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1579510027 Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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