Schrödinger's Cat Two: The Trick Top Hat

1981 Wilson, Robert Anton (1932-2007). Schrödinger’s Cat Two: The Trick Top Hat. New York: Pocket Books. Rpt. in Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, The Homing Pigeons (New York: Dell, 1988), 190-347. The other volumes were originally published as Schrödinger’s Cat: The Universe Next Door. New York: Pocket Books, 1979; and Schrödinger’s Cat III: The Homing Pigeons. New York: Pocket Books, 1981.

Dystopia and eutopia. Various alternative histories of past, present, and future. The dystopian future describes a future United States called Unistat, which is authoritarian. But there is also a period in which Unistad is a eutopia in that all poverty is ended through automation, and there are awards both for all those who invented better machines and those replaced by the new machines. All prisons have been abolished and crime almost eliminated. Middle volume of a trilogy. The trilogy is a sequel to another trilogy, Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94) and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus! New York: Dell, 1975; Rpt. as The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. New York: Dell, [1984] [All three originally published separately New York: Dell, 1975]. See also, Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati. Berkeley, CA: And/Or Press, 1977; rpt. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon, 1993; The Illuminati Papers. Berkeley, California: And/Or, 1980; Masks of the Illuminati. New York: Timescape Pocket Books, 1981; and Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. 2^nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1992. All this material could be described as dystopian, but except for the explicit eutopia and the vague dystopia, there is little social detail.