Robert Joseph Shea

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Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 - March 10, 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,367 ratings · 30 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan by Robert Joseph Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 4.01 avg rating — 5,464 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Eye in the Pyramid (Illuminatus 1) by Robert Joseph Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 3.93 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Apple (Illuminatus 2) by Robert Joseph Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 4.28 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Leviathan (Illuminatus 3) by Robert Joseph Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 4.26 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Time of the Dragons (Shike 1) 4.09 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Last of the Zinja (Shike 2) 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Shike 3.83 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All Things Are Lights 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Land of the Infidel (Saracen, #1) 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Holy War (Saracen, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Robert Joseph Shea

Illuminatus! (3 books)
by Robert Joseph Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

4.03 avg rating — 6,486 ratings

Saracen (2 books)
by Robert Joseph Shea

4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings

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“She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.”
― Robert Joseph Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid

tags: redheads

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“Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it.”
― Robert Joseph Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid

4 people liked it

“An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.”
― Robert Joseph Shea

tags: archeology

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