Taking the Red Pill: Science, philosophy, and religion in The Matrix edited by Glenn Yeffeth, with an introduction by David Gerrold, Summersdale, £7.99, ISBN 1840243775 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
THERE is something about the earnestness in parts of Taking the Red Pill that made me want to say, “It’s just some movie, you know?” The feeling begins early, when the introduction tells you not to compare it to The Pooh Perplex, the 1970s cult-hit collection of satirical academically styled essays on A. A. Milne’s children’s classic.
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