Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

Informationen zum Autor Robert Anton Wilson  (1932–2007) was the author of some thirty-five books including Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising,  and the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, and the co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. He was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . . maybe. He described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth." Klappentext The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.BOOK ONE The Universe Next Door   Not until the male become female and the female becomes male shall ye enter the Kingdom of Heaven. —Jesus, in The Gospel of Thomas   PART ONE PURITY OF ESSENCE   For the Cherub Cat is a term in the Angel Tiger —CHRISTOPHER SMART, Jubilate Agno   DON’T LOOK BACK   History is a nightmare from which none of us can awaken.   —STEPHEN PROMETHEUS IN CARL JUNG’S Odysseus   The majority of Terrans were six-legged. They had territorial squabbles and politics and wars and a caste system. They also had sufficient intelligence to survive on that barren boondocks planet for several billions of years.   We are not concerned here with the majority of Terrans. We are concerned with a tiny minority—the domesticated primates who built cities and wrote symphonies and invented things like tic-tac-toe and integral calculus. At the time of our story, these primates regarded themselves as the Terrans. The six-legged majority and other life-forms on that planet hardly entered into their thinking at all, most of the time.   The domesticated primates of Terra referred to the six-legged majority by an insulting name. They called them “bugs.”   There was one species on Terra that lived in very close symbiosis with the domesticated primates. This was a variety of domesticated canines called dogs.   The dogs had learned to achieve a rough simulation of guilt and remorse and worry and other domesticated primate characteristics.   The domesticated primates had learned how to achieve simulations of loyalty and dignity and cheerfulness and other canine characteristics.   The primates claimed that they loved the dogs as much as the dogs loved them. Still, the primates kept the best food for themselves. The dogs noticed this, you can be sure, but they loved the primates so much that they forgave them.   One dog became famous. Actually he and she was a group of dogs, but they became renowned collectively as Pavlov’s Dog.   The thing about Pavlov’s Dog is that he or she or they responded mechanically to mechanically administered stimuli. Pavlov’s Dog caused some of the domesticated primates, especially the scientists, to think that all dog behavior was equally mechanical. This made them wonder about other mammals, including themselves.   Most primates ignored this philosophical challenge. They went about their business assuming that they were not mechanical.      The fact that plutonium was missing originally leaked to the press in the mid-1970s. At first there was a minor wave of panic among those given to worrying about such matters, and there was even some churlish grumbling about a government so incompetent that it couldn’t keep track of its own weapons of megadeath.   But then a year passed, and another, and soon five years had passed, and then nearly a decade; and the missing plutonium was still missing but nothing really drastic had happened.   Terra...

Product details

• Authors: Robert A. Wilson
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.1988
• EAN: 9780440500704
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50070-4
• No. of pages: 545
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 204 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy