For the album by Hawkwind, see The Machine Stops (album).
"The Machine Stops"
Short story by E. M. Forster
Country
England
Language
English
Genre(s)
Science fiction short story
Publication
Published in
The Oxford and Cambridge Review
Publisher
Archibald Constable
Media type
Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
Publication date
November 1909
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story 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 similar to instant messaging and the Internet.
^Modern Short Stories, S. H. Burton ed., Longman Heritage of Literature series, Longman Group Ltd, Great Britain, first published 1965, sixth impression 1970
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