The Machine Stops (version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Machine Stops (version 3) by E. M. Forster: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 1:20:38 running time and a link to listen.
The Machine Stops (version 3), credited to E. M. Forster, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster. Read by Elizabeth Klett. "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story 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. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. ( Summary by Wikipedia )
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Machine Stops (version 3)
- Author credits: E. M. Forster
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 1:20:38
Catalogue topics
- audio
- novella
- science fiction
- dystopia
- forster
- machine
Track guide
- 1 - The Air-Ship — 30:53
- 2 - The Mending Apparatus — 26:01
- 3 - The Homeless — 23:44
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