Gregory Hill

Gregory Hill, who is better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger (Mal-2), was one of the two writers of the Principa Discordia, along with Kerry Wendell Thornley (aka Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).

Historical
Gregory H. Hill was born in California on Wednesday, May 21, 1941. He worked for Western Union while a young man in the Southern California area of Whittier, California.

Hill spent much of his life working for Bank of America as a computer programmer, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He had apparently visited there while a child.

Robert Anton Wilson stated, in the lecture "The I in the Triangle" from 1990, that Greg Hill was at the time the head of a large computer facility owned by one of the largest banks in the United States.

A designer of one of the early video games, Hill wrote about computers including editing a computer-oriented newsletter. He also published an article proposing using a computer to transmit signals to remotely control robots.

He was married to Jeanetta; they later separated and may have divorced.

He died in the San Francisco Bay Area of California on the July 20, 2000. A long-time smoker, he died of cancer.

Conspiratorial
Around 1958 or 1959 while still a teenager, he, Kerry Thornley, and others began working on the Discordian religion.

In 1965, the first edition of Principia Discordia was printed, allegedly in five copies. The most famous edition was the fourth.

In 1994, he and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst were inducted into the Order of the Pineapple.

Greg Hill described Mal-2 as a spirit sent into him by Eris that helped him write the Principia Discordia over the course of ten years in his early adulthood. An interview included in the fourth edition of the Principia Discordia by Loompanics Press reveals that Mal-2 left once the book was finished. He claims Mal-2 returned to leave a fifth and final edition consisting solely of a Western Union telegraph form filled with the letter "M". Greg Hill also reveals that he had access to Western Union forms when he worked at Western Union.