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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
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really liked it
bookshelves: dystopia-apocalypse

Creepily plausible. The bit where everyone avoids direct experience/knowledge of a thing, in favor of talking/ writing about what other people said about what other people thought about what other people wrote about a thing rang disturbingly prescient in our "post-truth" world of alternate facts. Also the woman spending her whole life interacting with her reality totally through buttons and screens. *shiver*
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Reading Progress

January 2, 2014 – Shelved
January 2, 2014 – Shelved as: to-read
January 2, 2014 – Shelved as: dystopia-apocalypse
Started Reading
September 16, 2017 – Finished Reading

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Wendy Bousfield I haven't reread this story since I was an undergraduate, but it made a profound impression. I've often thought that, living long before our 21st century hyperconnected, online age, Forester was extraordinarily prescient!


Kevin Ansbro Yes, eerily prescient, Michele.
Fab review!


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