The Machine Stops: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 1:31:23 running time and a link to listen.
The Machine Stops, 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 in English by Phil Chenevert "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction story by E. M. Forster. 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. - Summary by Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Machine Stops
- Author credits: E. M. Forster
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 1:31:23
Track guide
- 01 - The Air Ship — 32:39
- 02 - The Mending Apparatus — 29:45
- 03 - The Homeless — 28:59
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