The Machine Stops

Written by E.M. Forster

Narrated by Chloe Boyle

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard "cell", with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: FrontPage Publishing Audio
• Release date: Nov 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9782291042112

E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist. Born in London to an Anglo-Irish mother and a Welsh father, Forster moved with his mother to Rooks Nest, a country house in rural Hertfordshire, in 1883, following his father’s death from tuberculosis. He received a sizeable inheritance from his great-aunt, which allowed him to pursue his studies and support himself as a professional writer. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge, from 1897 to 1901, where he met many of the people who would later make up the legendary Bloomsbury Group of such writers and intellectuals as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes. A gay man, Forster lived with his mother for much of his life in Weybridge, Surrey, where he wrote the novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times without winning, Forster is now recognized as one of the most important writers of twentieth century English fiction, and is remembered for his unique vision of English life and powerful critique of the inequities of class.

Reviews for The Machine Stops

[Cristian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Nice, interesting short story. I think it's inspiring especially in the quarantine period.

[Katherine Crivello · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book may be short but it offers so much food for thought! It took me a few minutes to adjust to the voice of the reader, but it works perfectly once you get use to the context!

[Jeff Tzounos · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It was ok, must've been written a while ago, a bit, childish for me.

[michael dennis · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I didn’t like it much. No action and no tech