psychoceramics: The Illuminati

[Andrew C Bulhak <acb @ cs.monash.edu.au>]

I'm sure that most people here have read cyberpunk science fiction
novels and possibly Robert Anton Wilson's _Illuminatus_ 
guerilla-ontology conspiracy fiction.  Well, here's an interesting
aside:

A Christian Fundamentalist writer has appropriated the 
semiotics of both genres, and written a book titled ILLUMINATI.
The book, whilst written from a Religious Right end-times POV,
is apparently quite a head-trip.  

A few quotes from a review by Bruce Sterling (which may be found at
gopher://oak.zilker.net/00/bruces/catscan/catscan_eleven) are below:


    "The ILLUMINATI  in question today has nothing to do with the
    Robert Anton Wilson ILLUMINATI series; in fact, its weltanschauung is
    utterly at odds with Wilson's books.   Wilson's paranoid yarn is
    basically a long, rambling, crypto-erudite hipster rap-session, but
    Larry Burkett's ILLUMINATI is a fictional work of evangelical Christian
    exegesis, in which lesbians, leftists, dope addicts and other tools of
    Satan establish a gigantic government computer network in the year
    2001, with which to exterminate all Southern Baptists.
    
    "I recommend this novel highly.  Larry Burkett's ILLUMINATI has already
    sold some 100,000 copies through Christian bookstores, and it seems to
    me to have tremendous crossover potential for hundreds of chuckling
    cyberpunk cynics.   To my eye it's a lot more mind-blowing than any of
    Wilson's books.

    "The pace is whiplash-fast and the set-up entirely mindboggling.   In
    the year 2001, the President, an Illuminati puppet "liberal,"  stages a
    coup against Congress in the midst of economic collapse and massive
    urban riots.   The Mossad  are bugging the White House and building a
    cobalt super-bomb with the Red Chinese.   We learn that the Illuminati
    began as Druids and transmuted into Freemasons; the wily Jews, of
    course, have known all about the Illuminati for centuries, though never
    bothering to inform us goyim.  The gay Governor of California is a
    feminist church-taxing coke addict.   The "liberal" President sells
    "brain-dead" crack babies to fetal-tissue medical entrepreneurs.
    Meanwhile, evil liberal civil-libertarians tattoo everyone's right hand
    with the scanner-code of the Beast 666.  It just goes on and on!"


Any chance of seeing this book anywhere like Atomic Books anytime soon?

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