The Machine Stops
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The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
7 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2019–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
While I love the more experimental hard works, I think stories such as Asimovs "Last Question", Campbell's "Twilight" and Forester's "The Machine Stops", dating back before the vacuum tube era, tended to be more memorable, more vivid and more engaging philosophically.
More recently, the short novel The Machine Stops blew me away with its prescience.
Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago? 2019 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? 2019 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books? 2023 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? 2019 · 1 recommendation
- Hard comp-fi reading list 2019 · 1 recommendation