(Summary by Jerome Lawsen)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. This recording marks the 100th anniversary of the original publishing. The story has proved to be far ahead of its time, with remarkably accurate predictions of modern technologies, and paints a chilling picture of over-dependence on them. Kuno's radical views are validated as the The Machine's systems begin to malfunction and eventually fail completely. The narrative focuses on Vashti, an "advanced" mother whose total dependence upon The Machine has led her (like most others) to increasingly reverence and even worship it and her "untechnological" son, Kuno, who has begun to deny The Machine's omnipotence and even seeks to escape if possible. Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is lled with a soft radia nce. Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". First published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909. LibriVox recording of The Machine Stops, by E.M.
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