Why Read When You Can Laugh With Free Audiobook

E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops: The machine cannot stop. But what happens when it does? - E. M. Forrester

06 Apr 2024

Audio

Description

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://esound.space/fullTitle: E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops: The machine cannot stop. But what happens when it does?Author: E. M. ForresterNarrator: Philip ChenevertFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1:31:14Language: EnglishRelease date: 04-06-2024Publisher: Findaway VoicesGenres: Science Fiction & FantasySummary:Forster, better known for his realistic and modernistic contemporary fiction such as A Passage to India, tells a haunting speculative fiction story about a world that had become completely dependent upon “The Machine”, a global network of living arrangements in which everyone lived in an identical box and communicated and existed through lifelines supplied by the machine. After initial publication in 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 story is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet. In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that 'The Machine Stops is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells.' Although not all Wells's stories were optimistic about the future, this implies Forster was concerned about human dependence on technology.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes

🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Other recent transcribed episodes

Transcribed and ready to explore now

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.

Report any issue

Why Read When You Can Laugh With Free Audiobook

E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops: The machine cannot stop. But what happens when it does? - E. M. Forrester

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Other recent transcribed episodes

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

Sign in to Audioscrape

Share this moment