The Machine Stops
| By: | E. M. Forster |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781434442048 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781681460277 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own.