Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — The Machine Stops - A dystopian short story that feels almost too real! (analysis episode)

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The Machine Stops - A dystopian short story that feels almost too real! (analysis episode)

Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · 20

It is truly unbelievable that this story was written in 1909 - E. M. Forster's dystopian world feels all too real in our increasingly digitally connected and physically isolated real world. The story is about ritual & superstition, resistance to change, the dangers of reliance on an all-powerful authority, the origins…

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