E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops: The machine cannot stop. But what happens when it does?
Written by E. M. Forrester
Narrated by philip chenevert
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Forster, better known for his realistic and modernistic contemporary fiction such as A Passage to India, tells a haunting speculative fiction story about a world that had become completely dependent upon “The Machine”, a global network of living arrangements in which everyone lived in an identical box and communicated and existed through lifelines supplied by the machine. After initial publication in 1909 the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet. In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that "The Machine Stops is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells." Although not all Wells's stories were optimistic about the future, this implies Forster was concerned about human dependence on technology.
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