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Here is a list of books on reserve for your Matrix Essay (homework #1) due Friday. They are on a 1-day reserve, but you'll want to be kind and return them as soon as possible so that everyone can use them. (I've also seen the best of these books, the one called "Taking the Red Pill", at Books-A-Million in the Burlington Mall. It's in the entertainment section.)

Most of them are in chapters, where each chapter is written by a different author and has a different focus, so you should be able to make photocopies of the chapter(s) you like and return the book.

• Yeffeth, Glenn. (2003). Taking the Red Pill: Science, philosophy, and religion in the Matrix.
  
• Faller, Stephen. (2004). Beyond The matrix : revolutions and revelations.
  
• Horsley, Jake. (2003). Matrix warrior : being the one.
  
• Seay, Chris. (2003). The Gospel reloaded : exploring spirituality and faith in The matrix.
  
• Irwin, William. (2002). The matrix and philosophy : welcome to the desert of the real.
  

Here are some web resources to get you started on thinking about the movie. Be careful with web resources because they often lack the "heft" and authority of a paper, article, or book. You are thus limited to the number of web resources you are allowed to use for the essay.

• BeCaL Toolkit - Study Guide to the Matrix
  
• English 3901 Study Guide to the Matrix
  
• Evil Demons, Saviors, and Simulacra
  
• Scanning the Movies: The Matrix (1)
  
• Scanning the Movies: The Matrix Reloaded (2)
  
• Scanning the Movies: Matrix Revolutions (3)
  
• 404 human selected Matrix links
  
• The Matrix: It's Harry Potter with Guns
  
• The Matrix - philosophy articles from Warner Brothers
  
• What is the Matrix?