The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops E. M. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster (1879-1970) was an English…
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The Machine Stops
E. M. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist.
His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success.First published in 1909, Forster's short science fiction work, ʺThe Machine Stops,ʺ posits a technology-dependent humanity now living underground, its every need serviced by machines. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel, Howards End: ʺOnly connect...ʺ. But what happens if--or when--the machines stop?
ʺThe Machine Stopsʺ was named one of the greatest science fiction novellas published before 1965 by the Science