E. M Forrester
Author
Language
English
Description
Forster, better known for his realistic and modernistic contemporary fiction such as A Passage to India, tells a haunting speculative fiction story about a world that had become completely dependent upon "The Machine", a global network of living arrangements in which everyone lived in an identical box and communicated and existed through lifelines supplied by the machine. After initial publication in 1909 the story was republished in Forster's The...