Quote of the Week

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
--Robert Anton Wilson

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Robert Anton Wilson!

AKA Robert Edward Wilson* or RAW.

Born January 18, 1932. Died January 11, 2007.

He was a popular science fiction writer most famous for The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a series of three novels written by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea and published in 1975. He also went on to write a series of novels dealing with various historical conspiracies including The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles and Masks of the Illuminati.

It is tempting to call him the thinking man's Dan Brown but I somehow doubt he would have taken that as a compliment. Besides, the humor in his literary work was usually deliberate.

* Birth name.

R.I.P. Robert Anton Wilson

Alas, the late Mr. Wilson was a science fiction writer that inspired conspiracy buffs the world over long before Chris Carter ever created Fox Mulder. His best known work was The Illuminatus Trilogy, a series of novels he co-wrote with Robert Shea which attempted to combine almost every conspiracy theory of the late 1960s into one story arc.

He will be missed. And not just by conspiracy buffs.