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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 11:28:57 AM

Title: The Machine Stops
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 11:28:57 AM

I read this many years ago and had forgotten so many details


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52821993

Title: Re: The Machine Stops
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 30, 2020, 12:53:48 PM

I remember reading this as a teenager in some anthology I had got. It was far and away the best thing in that anthology. It is awesome - in an understated British sense, not the current, maybe recent, US sense of the word.

Title: Re: The Machine Stops
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 12:59:16 PM

Yep, similar to me I think. There's a cold clarity to it.