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Nearly Sane

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The Machine Stops
« 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
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Aruntraveller

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Re: The Machine Stops
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: The Machine Stops
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2020, 12:59:16 PM »
Yep, similar to me I think. There's a cold clarity to it.
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