Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson

Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson one of the most adventurous hopeful and least understood intellects of the past century. You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this rediscovery of the life and work of writer rebel and social experimenter Colin Wilson (1931-2013). Author of the classic The Outsider Wilson across his 118 books purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him one of the least understood and most important voices of the twentieth century. Wilson helped usher in the cultural revolution of the 1960s with his landmark work The Outsider published in 1956. The Outsider was an intelligent meticulous and unprecedented study of nonconformity in all facets of life. Wilson finally became a prolific and unparalleled historian of the occult providing a generation of readers with a responsible and scholarly entry point to a world of mysteries. Now acclaimed historian Gary Lachman a friend of Wilson and a scholar of his work provides an extraordinary and delightful biography that delves into the life thought and evolution of one of the greatest intellectual rebels and underrated visionaries of the twentieth century.