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Old 04-02-2014, 12:03 AM   #19451
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin View Post
I finished and thoughroughly enjoyed The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster. A novelette first published in 1909, it's the first modern dystopia AFAIK, prior to 1984, Brave New World or Anthem. The poetic prose captured my attention and there's something to be said about the prophetizing skills of Forster, depicting a dystopian society of antisocial iconoclasts living isolated in cubicles comunicating through audio-visual tubes with their "audience" resemble so much these fakebook days...

...highly recommended
That was indeed a good book, and it sparked quite a discussion in the MobileRead Book Club back in January 2010. You might want to take a peek at that thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=Machine+Stops
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