Austin Powers

by Michael McCullers, Mike Myers

Just in time for the third "Austin Powers" film installment--"Austin Powers in Goldmember"--scheduled for release by New Line Cinema on July 26, 2002, this ultimate how-to guide shows readers "how to go from square to swinger in just secs, " how to fight evil (as in Dr. Evil), and includes a groovy cocktail guide and tips on how to sound like a swinger. (July)

Genres: Fiction

112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Manny]

Austin Powers fans may want to check out Adam Elga's 2004 paper "Defeating Dr. Evil with Self-Locating Belief", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol 69 No 2. Here is the opening passage:

Safe in an impregnable battlestation on the moon, Dr. Evil had planned to launch a bomb that would destroy the Earth. In response, the Philosophy Defense Force (PDF) sent Dr. Evil the following message.
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Dear Sir,

(Forgive the impersonal nature of thus communication - our purpose prevents us from addressing you by name.) We have just created a duplicate of Dr. Evil. The duplicate - call him "Dup" - is inhabiting a replica of Dr. Evil's battlestation that we have installed in our skepticism lab. At each moment Dup has experiences indistinguishable from those of Dr. Evil. For example, at this moment both Dr. Evil and Dup are reading this message.

We are in control of Dup's environment. If in the next ten minutes Dup performs actions that correspond to deactivating the battlestation and surrendering, we will treat him well. Otherwise we will torture him.

Best regards,

The PDF
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Dr. Evil knows that the PDF never issues false or misleading messages. Should he surrender?

According to Google Scholar, the paper has already been cited 58 times. Shagadelic, baby!

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious parody of the 1960s spy stories, with a nod to Ian Fleming's James Bond.

🎥Movie version.