The Golden Apple

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized by Discordianism as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps,...

Robert Shea, co-author of the influential Illuminatus! Trilogy, is a key figure in science fiction and counterculture literature. He also wrote fantasy novels like Les Ailes du dragon and non-fiction works such as The Pulp Writers.