Virtual Realities
Novels
Penumbra's 24hour bookstore
Films
The Matrix
Poems
Hughs, Ted. (). Crow goes Hunting" online at the beckoning [http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/hughes/hughes2.html] describes what happens when Crow "decides to try words". The words he throws at Hare are in fact slippery beasts changing form constantly, leaving Crow "speechless with admiration". This poem is a deceptively simple account of the power of language, and a depiction of postmodern understandings of Truth as mutable and uncontainable. It would work very well with an analysis of Prospero's power (through language) over the Island in The Tempest or as an interpretation of the tiger's role in Life of Pi (who is who?). It couold also be used to unpack the way the director controls our reactions in reality TV series such as Go back to where you come from.
Websites
Gavin Menzies [http://www.gavinmenzies.net/] This revisionist history asserts that a fleet of medieval Chinese ships circumnavigated the globe, discovering America, Australia and Antarctica. While this version of history has been well and truly debunked [See The myth of Menzies at http://www.1421exposed.com/], If you're using this site to discuss virtual realities then you should focus on the author's own voyage of historical discovery as retrieval process, uncovering buried "history", and they way his invented history has been taken up by his audience as a new reality.