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Old 02-04-2011, 01:38 PM   #12
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I think the first Saki story I read was in my English class school book. Great author, I like his humour.

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Incidentally, the same book of short stories also contained the excellent story by E. M. Forster "The Machine Stops". A bit frightening for a youngster, but I think that my love of sci-fi came from this.
Definitely an excellent story. And the most interesting and intelligent critical comment on the Internet (and like technologies) I've read - despite the fact that it was written in 1910.
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