The Machine Stops
Short story by E. M. Forster
Originally published: November 1909
Author: E. M. Forster
Genre(s): Science fiction short story
Published in: The Oxford and Cambridge Review
Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft ...
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Posted: Dec 14, 2019
Posted: Dec 14, 2019