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The Machine Stops

Paperback • 2016 • English

The Machine Stops

By Edward Morgan Forster

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About the book

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those ...Show more

Science fiction

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ISBN

9781533406262

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

The Machine Stops

Format

Paperback

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