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The Machine Stops

Von: E. M. Forster
Gesprochen von: Emma Gregory
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The Machine Stops is a groundbreaking sci-fi short story by E. M. Forster. The story is set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs. The book is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet.

After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November 1909 the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.

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I'm just going to shoot it straight: I loved Emma Gregory's voice acting performance as Minthara in Balder's Gate 3. I was told she did a bunch of audiobook narrations, but stopped looking when I realized a lot of her work was with Warhammer or other such properties I didn't want to get into.

Fast forward to a few weeks before this review was written, and I read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis. I had to wrap that one up as an audiobook, and somehow this story ended up in my suggestions once I'd completed it.

As soon as I saw the short length, and the fact that it was read by MINTHARA HERSELF, I had to give it a go. And wow. Gregory's voice is every bit as emotive and awesome as I could have hoped throughout this entire experience. Impeccable performance.

Topically, this story is awesome. I have no context for the author, themselves, but have every intention of diving in later. The messages, while a little ham handed in a way that tracks for fiction of the time, are actually super pertinent, and I really get how it would resonate with the messages related to Technofeudalism. And the amount of technologies that seem effectively predicted in this story (video phone, Internet, airplanes, etc.) for something written 120 years ago is an absolute brain scramble.

Came for Minthara. Left with Corey Doctorow.

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