E. M. FOSTER Sci-F- Set

E. M. FOSTER
Sci-F- Set
Two Book Set

1. THE MACHINE STOPS

2. THE CELESTIAL OMINBUS AND OTHER SHORT STORIES
   By E. M. Foster

3. THE MACHINE STOPS
   By E. M. Foster
   Synopsis
   The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end.

4. THE CELESTIAL OMINBUS AND OTHER SHORT STORIES
   By E. M. Foster
   Synopsis
   A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land.
   These six stories deal with transformations, the truth of the imagination, and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology, E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty.

File information:
File size (Digital) (167KB)
Books (2)
Page count (8.5x11) (127)
Word count (45,090)
Working table of contents (Yes)
Font size (12pt)
Republished (2019)

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