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Re:The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH' by jhallenworld on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:34PM (#12511651)
Interesting, as soon as I saw the Matrix I thought that this idea which I knew from Dan Simmon's Hyperion would have made much more sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Cruciform

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Re:The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH' by logfromblammo on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:54AM (#12514859)
The Cybercore of Hyperion is much more clever than the machines of The Matrix. Also, like the Cylons, they have some really weird religion. The true purpose of the Tree of Pain just seemed really strange to me.
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