Robert Anton Wilson
Author of The Walls Came Tumbling Down

We had a chat with him on Tuesday, September 16, 1997. You can read a transcript here.

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Robert Anton Wilson is a futurist, author, former editor at Playboy, and a stand-up comic. He is the author of the "Cosmic Trigger" trilogy, and the coauthor, with Robert Shea, of the underground classic "The Illuminatus!" trilogy," which won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. His other writings include the "Schrodinger's Cat" trilogy, called "the most scientific of all science fiction novels," by New Scientist, and several nonfiction works of Futurist psychology and guerilla ontology, such as "Prometheus Rising" and "The New Inquisition." Wilson has also made both a comedy record (Secrets of Power) and a punk rock record (The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy), and his play "Wilhelm Reich in Hell" was performed at the Edmund Burke Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. His novel "Illuminatus!" was adapted as a 10-hour science fiction rock epic and performed under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Great Britain's National Theatre, where Wilson appeared briefly on stage in a special cameo role. Wilson's web page is located at http://www.tcp.com/~prime8/raw/index.html.

The Walls Came Tumbling Down is published by New Falcon (1997, trade paper, $14.95). It's actually the script for a film, and deals with the scary things that happen to those who stumble into a borderless or otherworldly consciousness without any intent to go there and without any preparation or Operating Manual to tell them how to navigate when the walls tumble, the doors of perception fly open, and the bottom falls out of their mental filing cabinet, leaving the brain suddenly free of the limits of "mind."