Principia Discordia Hardback
That’s right folks. The POEE | UK Resource Centre and our publishing sub-sect Synaptyclypse Generator have finally got our finger out of our a**es and published the damned thing.
Here we are in 2007 (or YOLD 3173), forty-eight, or forty-nine years after Mal2 and Omar’s Discordian revelations at the hands of the Goddess Eris. Synaptyclypse Generator is proud to present this special edition of the legendary counter-culture classic, the bible of Discordianism. We have spared no cabbage-power in preparing this wonderful hardback edition for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Illuminet disappeared, Loompanics have closed their doors and Ronin have released a mashed up paperback edition. We at Synaptyclypse Generator decided that this wasn’t good enough. We wanted our Principia. The real Principia. And what’s more, we wanted something special, we wanted it in hardback! Principia Discordia has been republished a number of times over the years, but not since 1976 has it been available to the general public in hardback format. So we took it upon ourselves to produce this edition. We have done the best we could have hoped to ensure a quality and cherishable version of Principia Discordia and hope you fall in love with the Principia Discordia all over again, just as we have.
For this edition, we have included Kerry W. Thornley’s introduction to the 1991 Illuminet Press edition and Robert Anton Wilson’s Loompanics Unlimited introduction. We include all the material from the last Loompanics printing and any odd bits left over from the Illuminet version. We have closing ‘Outroductions’ by none other than the Rev.Dr Jon Swabey of Apocrypha Discordia fame and ‘crackpot historian,’ Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy, The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture. It also features the most sumptuously gorgeous cover that any edition has ever had.
Hardback ISBN-13: 9781846856044 / ISBN-10: 1846856044
Reviews:
Finally! Principia Discordia in hardback! It’s about time too. It seems I’ve been waiting thirty odd years for this version. I’ve worn out and given away so many paperback copies I have now gifted myself a permanent version. Just check out all those neat little additions too, like the ‘outroductions’ and the bit about the…
No, I’m not going to spoil it for you. Just buy it!
5/5
~Pope Anonymous Sausages
I recently noticed that I couldn’t find my purple version of this book. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it. But if that hadn’t happened, I never would have known that there was a hard cover version out. Something mysterious is going on. You should buy this book.
5/5
~Rachel Lovinger “mirka23″
Genius. All hail Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, those subverters of organized religion and philosophic mavericks of the 50s, 60s and beyond. Not heard of them? Shame on you. This book may be the most important book any questioning Christian, Muslim, Jew, Budhhist, etc, may ever read. I wasn’t even alive when this book first crawled out of a photocopier in downtown Dallas, TX in the 1960’s and as a Discordian since reading the Illuminatus Trilogy in the 80s, it is strange to witness this latest edition’s release in hardback and the story of how it came to be. The book itself is a pseudo religious text filled with the kind of truths that the big-box religions won’t ever tell you. If you are the questioning sort, it may well be the key to unlocking the first doors of your personal black iron prison. If you don’t know what BIP is, do not despair, that’s just the way your were born into it. Check out poee.co.uk for more information - if you’re prepared to dig. HAIL ERIS!! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!!!
5/5
~Pope Atomic Dissertation, a Discordian Pope
It’s awesome to finally see what may be one of the most stealthily influential books of the later 20th century in hardback. A definite must have, especially if you’re like me and have already destroyed two paperback copies from over reading…
5/5
A. Gray
The Book is a masterpiece of confusion, philosophy, humor and a religion that only starts out seeming ridiculous, as you read and reread the book you start to find the wisdom that Malaclypse the Younger was trying to convey and yet wrap his own head around at the time. I have owned three copies of this book and evey time i rebuy it and reread it i get somthing new from it. So grab your copy and all hail Eris.
5/5
~J. M. Seifert “Professional Geek and Journeyman Philosopher”
Z. Orin Michael Fothering-Goode @ June 28, 2008
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