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The Machine Stops

This is one of 50 fascinating, disturbing, moving or funny short books published in an appealing new format to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'Penguin Modern Classics'.

Author: E. M. Forster

Publisher: Penguin Classics

ISBN: 9780141195988

Category: Fantasy fiction, English

Page: 96

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E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts, and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible.
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The Machine Stops

He refused to visualize his face upon the blue plate, and speaking out of the darkness with solemnity said: 'The Machine stops.' 'What do you say?' 'The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs.

Author: E. M. Forster

Publisher: Open Road Media

ISBN: 1504061713

Category: Fiction

Page: 46

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A prophetic story about social isolation and dependence on technology written over a century ago by the Nobel Prize–nominated author. In a future version of planet Earth, most of the human population doesn’t venture above ground. Rarely do they even leave their own rooms, in which all of their needs are met by the Machine. The Machine allows the humans to communicate “ideas” with one another, which is essentially their only activity. It doesn’t stop them from leaving their rooms, but they have little desire to do so anyway. They’ve started to believe the Machine is omnipotent and omniscient, not to be questioned. And when it begins to malfunction, they trust that it knows what it’s doing—forgetting they invented it in the first place . . . From the author of A Passage to India, A Room with a View, and other classic novels, and a sixteen-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, this remarkable science fiction story, which was included in a Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology, was published in 1909—yet becomes more relevant and thought-provoking with each passing day of the twenty-first century.
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The Machine Stops

So thehuman passionsstill blundered upanddownin the Machine. ... removal to the publicnurseries, her own visit to him there, his visits to her visits which stopped when the Machinehad assigned him a room on the other side of the earth.

Author: E. M. Forster

Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

ISBN:

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 5

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'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts, and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible. This book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus.
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New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction

Prior to decoding the political impact of this particular biomedical imaginary , however , we should first look at the ways " The Machine Stops " has been interpreted , examine Max Nordau's Degeneration as an ideal type of politicized ...

Author: Donald M. Hassler

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 9781570037368

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 382

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Surveying the vast expanse of politically-charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress, or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death and the competition for survival.
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The Machine Stops and Other Stories

"The collection provides a fascinating glimpse into Forster's abiding interest in paganism and mythology, the mysteries of nature and the possibilities of magical transformation.

Author: Edward Morgan Forster

Publisher: Andre Deutsch

ISBN:

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 190

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"The collection provides a fascinating glimpse into Forster's abiding interest in paganism and mythology, the mysteries of nature and the possibilities of magical transformation. Here too are fantasies of the afterlife, ... an ambitious experiment in science-fiction ... [and] a realistic study of self-delusion and compromise."--Jacket.
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The Machine Stops

After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 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.

Author: Edward Morgan Forster

Publisher:

ISBN:

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Page: 28

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The Machine Stops "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 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.
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The Machine Stops

About a world in which many humans have lost the ability to live on the surface, and live underground instead.

Author: E. M. Forster

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN: 9781449570132

Category: Fiction

Page: 66

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About a world in which many humans have lost the ability to live on the surface, and live underground instead.
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The Machine Stops By E M Forster Illustrated

After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.

Author: E M Forster

Publisher:

ISBN:

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Page: 56

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"""The Machine Stops"" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 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.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet."
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The Machine Stops Illustrated

After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.

Author: E M Forster

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Page: 56

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"""The Machine Stops"" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 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.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet."