Download or read book The Machine Stops Illustrated written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 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. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.The book is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the internet.