From: Bill9191-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:25:03 EST
Subject: Re: The Matrix. What is the Matrix?


Hi,

 When the Matrix came out, I remembered a story in  the Sci Fi  _Analog_ 
along the
same lines.  I would like to find this story, but can recall author or
title.  Are there newsgroups or contacts with Analog magazine that I
might contact?  

 The story when as follows:
 A society where everyone lives in a big holodeck, but they know it.
This one guy gets tired of all the games and asks to be unplugged.  He
is told there is a group of discontents like himself that are being
sent to another planet to colonize and he is free to join them. He
does. But the last scene is a coffin like holobox that people use to
plug in being carried down into the vaults, and the workers casually
talking about another one that is getting the final plug in and won't
be unplugged every again.  

   Would love to know the author and title of this story in Analog. My
guess is it was in the early 1970's. 

bill