Painting by Dora Carrington
1924
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
E. M. FORSTER
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"What I Believe"
An Essay
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"The main facts in human life are five:
birth, food, sleep, love and death."
"Death destroys a man,
but the idea of death saves him."
"The Machine Stops"
1909
A science fiction short story (12,300 words) by Forster.
After initial publication in
The Oxford and Cambridge Review,
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.
In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
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Read The Original Story
HERE
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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"The main facts in human life are five:
birth, food, sleep, love and death."
"Death destroys a man,
but the idea of death saves him."
"The Machine Stops"
1909
After initial publication in
The Oxford and Cambridge Review,
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.
In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
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Read The Original Story
HERE
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.
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Watch the BBC 50 Minute Adaptation
HERE
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HERE
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Post Script
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1 comment:
oh dear. i got very involved in 'The Machine Stops'. will have to read chapter 2 later or the day will pass me by. amazing that it was written so long ago. i wonder if it interested many people in that time period. you post the most interesting things. thanks.
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