Psychedelic Supermen? Or a Monstrous Joke?

We submit for your approval - Illuminatus! (Part III) Leviathan. A book hidden by obscurity for nearly 32 years. Another in our "Post-Modern" series of books, one of the tag-lines to our blog.

"The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies." - these chilling words come from the Illuminatus! trilogy originally issued in the 1970s. Part fact, part fantasy, part science-fiction, this marvelous work was originally hundreds of pages longer, but no traditional publisher wanted to touch this seminal work by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It took them years of shopping it around to get anyone to publish it.

Of course, given the dense level of contemporary conspiracy theory on the Internet in 2007, one could say they were just 30 some-odd years ahead of their time. They could not find any publisher back then that wanted to touch this remnant of the 60s counter-culture where zany plot twists and real-life personalities were merged with dark and devious machinations by subversive organizations and secret societies. The authors claim that this was the result of a paper shortage caused by certain organizations, and that the pages had been lost, but it was really because the work was so long, that they probably could have easily squeezed out a couple of more books in the series if they could have anticipated their success.

This is volume III in the series, and if you have not read the first two, fear not, the rollicking and madcap plot twists will captivate you with the sheer audacity of their scope, and the many obscure facts that fill its pages will tickle your frontal lobes. The authors reassure you in the prologue by recapitulating the action of the first two volumes.

Of course, Google and Yahoo have filled in many of the gaps in these tales of the offbeat, and many people now know some of the ground work of these vast conspiracies, but Shea and Wilson went beyond the call in their conspiracy mongering - they reveal in their tongue-in-cheek way that all the conspiracies are true. Everything you feared is in fact possible, and paranoia is just a defense mechanism to keep you from running around screaming. And you will definitely find out facts of history that will tantalize you as well as leave your head spinning. There is no auction here - it is a fixed price item in our eBay store. Click the Buy It Now option and if you like, this vaunted masterwork will fly to your door.