But how would Forster know of digital interfaces? That would have been too much to foresee. And the loss of Patience! Damn this is good and so true - with one big exception the many buttons for all the machines functions. So imaginative for 1909! Staying at home with the telly and internet and instant messaging and videoconferencing, google and pizza delivery and all flats and all cities look alike. And the world he describes feels so appalling, although we are good on the way to be where Forster imagined us - shocker. (Wikipedia)Ī condensed rapidfire of details and ideas imagining a dystopian world. Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience.
After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forsters The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Forster - 'The Machine Stops' is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story.
Track 11 is given as "Yum-Yum" on rear of sleeve and "Yum Yum" in booklet.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Machine Stops Released in digipak with 12 page booklet with lyrics, images and credits. ℗ & © 2016 Hawkwind under exclusive licence to Cherry Red Records Ltd. The struggle to escape and find a way to reach the outer surface is a utopian dream, which could become a dystopian nightmare.įorster's visionary masterpiece provides chilling warning of the dangers of isolation, reliance on computer technology and the effects on society." - Inner Sleeve Notes.Īll tracks ℗ 2016 licensed courtesy of Hawkwind to Cherry Red Records Ltd. "The Machine Stops is based on E.M.Forster's ( Edward Morgan Forster's) sci-fi classic, a prophetic tale written in 1909 predicting a future living in isolated, subterranean cells, communicating with others only by the use of a personal screen.Įvery need is controlled and catered for by the omnipresent machine, which inevitably begins to break down.Īn atmospheric, musical interpretation beginning in tunnels deep beneath the earth.
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