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They have been with us throughout the ages: the "Invisible College" of wisdom and their adversaries, the destroyers. Naples, Italy, circa 1764: A young aristocrat is about to stumble onto one piece of the great pattern. As witness to a vicious assassination and victim of his passion for the beautiful daughter of his enemy, young Sigismundo Celine is forced to begin a mystical odyssey amidst an ageless clash of Freemasons, Mafia, and the Illuminati.

Illuminatus! Part III cheerfully ushers in the apocalyptic high-camp conclusion of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. The 9th and 10th Trips are performed by a grand ensemble cast. The Appendices (which are most instructive) are performed by the incomparable Ken Campbell, bringing the audiobook trilogy full circle. The Illuminati has never looked so good. All Hail Eris!

Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early 21st-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter.

In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving an America now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine.

Packaged in a carnival bundle of timeless truths and Joycean high camp, The Golden Apple serves as a perennial instruction manual for life on Earth in which you'll be lucky enough to learn: the Guerrilla Ontology of Markoff Chaney; the secret history of Atlantis; why gorillas and dolphins don't ordinarily talk to humans; the conspiracy against sex; the origins of the Trojan War (starring Eris, the namesake of our solar system's newest planet); the startling truth about UFOs.

From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness. Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not...

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a...

When FBI Agent Chad Nelson catches up with the only suspect in a string of disturbing serial murders, the strange man he's been chasing uses a power beyond Nelson's imagination to send him somewhere...else. And when he wakes up in the body of another Chad Nelson - a brilliant, violent serial killer - he struggles to understand what has happened to him. But he soon learns the nightmare has only begun when he wakes again paralyzed in his own body, now taken over by the "other" Chad Nelson - the serial killer.

From the author of the legendary underground bestseller The Illuminatus! Trilogy and more than 30 other books, comes a long-awaited audio event: Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything. This once-in-a-lifetime, 12-session recording captures one of the most unconventional and brilliant writers of...

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Axis, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life...

The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.

The great modern classic of a brilliant rebel's personal exploration into the nature of consciousness. Based on The Robert Anton Wilson Trust Authorized Hilaritas Press Edition.

Evolution and creation are in a spiritual battle. Evolution scientists ignore, dismiss, and unequivocally reject creation out of hand - "It is not science or fact as evolution is," they say. However, Nullifying God shows that random Darwinian evolution does not have the direct evidence required to support the claim. Not only that, but it provides contrary evidence that evolution is biologically impossible.

During the five full years of his presidency (1964 - 1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing.

Kriminalkommissær, Inspector Jefe, Javier Falcón har lovet indbyggerne i Sevilla, at han vil bringe bagmændene fra en terrorbombning i Sevilla for retten. Men han mangler nogle afgørende brikker i sin efterforskning. En brændende hed sensommeraften kører en bil galt på motorvejen ved Sevilla. Bilens dræbte chauffør er et højtstående medlem af den russiske mafia, der kontrollerer menneskehandel og prostitution på den spanske Solkyst.

Rafael Vega led en smertefuld død. I et topsikret hus i et velstående boligkvarter i Sevilla bliver han fundet død på køkkengulvet. Tilsyneladende har han frivilligt drukket kaustisk soda. I hånden har han en papirlap med ordene: "... den tynde luft I indånder fra 9/11 indtil alting..." På etagen ovenover ligger hans kone kvalt. Alt tyder på, at Vega først har dræbt hende og derpå begået selvmord. Inspektør Javier Falcón er overbevist om, at det drejer sig om mord, og at motivet og nøglen til opklaringen ligger i Rafael Vegas liv.

Tredje, selvstændige bind i Robert Wilsons krimiserie om kriminalinspektør Javier Falcón fra Sevilla. Mens kriminalinspektør Javier Falcón forsøger at opklare mordet på en skamferet, ansigtsløs mand fundet på en losseplads, ryster en kraftig eksplosion det ellers smukke og fredelige Sevilla. En etageejendom styrter sammen. Mænd, kvinder og børn bliver dræbt. Medierne er ikke sene til at mistænke islamistiske terrorister for attentatet.

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the...

The epic climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned visionary leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway. Accompanied by his loyal band of followers, fierce warrior Colleen Brooks, expatriate Russian physician Doc Lysenko, and bipolar street wizard Herman "Goldie" Goldman, Cal follows a trail of clues he hopes will lead him to the Source of the Change that overthrew the world.