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The Machine Stops
1909 E.M. Forster science fiction short story
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- Author
- E. M. Forster
- First published
- 1909
- Editions
- 311
- Subjects
- English literature, Children's fiction, Science fiction, Technology, Social aspects, Environmental disasters, Fiction, Culture
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- first line
- Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee.
- last line
- For a moment they saw the nations of the dead, and, before they joined them, scraps of the untainted sky.
- publication date
- 1909-11-00
- title
- The Machine Stops