This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November. "The Machine Stops" remains a thought-provoking and harrowing story of the dangers of human dependence on technology and the resilience of the human spirit. The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. In this bleak future, the lives of two people, Vashti and Kuno, collide and the cruelty and indifference of the Machine is exposed. The Machine was referenced a lot during my reading it expresses that The Machine might be the higher power controlling society. The visionary work was far ahead of its time as Forster envisioned a world where people's main form of communication and entertainment was dependent on machines and done through a video and messaging apparatus. Forster, it starts us off with a utopian society in which everything is perfect and The Machine does everything for the humans.
The tale is set in a vague future time when humans are no longer able to live on the surface of the planet and must instead survive underground where all their needs are taken care of by the ever-present Machine. Forster's "The Machine Stops" is a fascinating story of dystopic science fiction which has been heralded as one of the greatest of the twentieth century.
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