{"product_id":"the-machine-stops-paperback-3","title":"The Machine Stops - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel, Howards End: ʺOnly connect...ʺ. His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e First published in 1909, Forster's short science fiction work, ʺThe Machine Stops,ʺ posits a technology-dependent humanity now living underground, its every need serviced by machines. But what happens if--or when--the machines stop? ʺThe Machine Stopsʺ was named one of the greatest science fiction novellas published before 1965 by the Science Fiction Writers of America\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101659336927,"sku":"9781434442048","price":9.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZUFjc0dJWmYwL08yNDJPL0pOSHVsZz09.webp?v=1781071921","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-machine-stops-paperback-3","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}