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The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

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Oct 15, 2018 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories-novellas, breakfast-club, sci-fi

E. M. Forster's dystopian tale of human beings living beneath the surface of the earth, dependent on a large machine to serve all their needs. There is little or no contact between people other than through the phone (like Skype) where they see and speak with one another. Lives are inactive and purposeless.

What fascinated me the most about this story was the fact that it was written in 1909 and yet it foreshadows an overly dependent world of technology, that is sometimes all too real today. The ...more

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Jul 07, 2014 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, british-literature, science-fiction, e-books, audio-books, read-2014, dystopia

From BBC Radio 4 - 4 Extra Debut:
Written in 1909, a tale of the future where the machine has become an all-powerful god. Stars Gemma Jones and John McAndrew.

You may read online here.

I would never imagined that E M Forster had wrote any science fiction book before I have read Richard's review. ...more

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