The authors went on to create several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that further discussed the themes of the trilogy, but no direct sequels were produced. The trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction, in 1986. They were first published starting in September 1975, as three separate volumes, and in 1984 as an omnibus they are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The trilogy comprises the books The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, anarchism, and Discordianism. It also jumps around in time, as do the minds of some of the characters, but by then it has settled down to a point where it is somewhat less evidently self-aware. The third-person omniscient narrator finds these switches, as well as its original non-identity as a disembodied narrator, very troubling and disconcerting at first. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives. The trilogy is a satirical, apparently postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of The Illuminati. The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 19, and first published in 1975. Epicene Wildeblood, The Eye in the Pyramid
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