The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops

By E. M. Forster

  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Short Stories
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 22 Ratings)

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"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (of 12,000 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.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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