The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
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The Machine Stops
Classic Tales Edition

Author: E.M. Forster

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 1 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 05/12/2010

Synopsis

The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?

About E.M. Forster

Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist. Many of his novels, including A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, examine class difference and hypocrisy in late 19th-century and early 20th-century British society. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on March 24, 2024

"The saddest aspect of life now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." —Isaac Asimov This is a short sci-fi story in which English humanist author, E. M. Forster, astonishingly predicts the internet age way back in the early 1900s (when a selfie would have left you......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on October 02, 2020

The Machine Stops is a three chapters novelette written in 1909 by the author of A Passage to India; probably one of the earliest dystopian works of the 20th century, before Brave New World or 1984. It tells, in a few brush-strokes, the story of a son and his mother in a world, far in the future, whe......more

Goodreads review by Regina on July 06, 2021

The Machine Stops is a novella written by E.M. Forster (A Room with a View, Passage to India) about a society where people live underground, siloed in individual spaces, relying on an omnipresent Machine to communicate via messages and videos with one another. People worship the Machine, shun physic......more

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