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Originally Posted by Ea
It's a short story - not even a novella. I've been looking for some book club questions for an eventual discussion thread, but couldn't find any. I guess it's not that well known.
However, in my paper copy of "Collected Short Stories" by E. M. Forster (Penquin) I found one reference in the introduction (written by Forster) to the story: " The Machine Stops is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells." This is what Forster thought about it. I could add that he dedicates the whole short story collection to Hermes Psychopompus. Very 'Forster' I'd say.
Something to chew on for the discussion for those of you who've already read it. I'm waiting until tomorrow myself for reading  Personally, I wouldn't mind if we pushed discussion a bit.
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I'd like to see that information discussed in the
The Machine Stops thread. I'd like to know exactly what he meant by the "heavens of H.G. Wells." (I assume he was referring to Well's love of technology.) I'd also like to know why did he dedicated his story collection to Hermes. I can understand why he
didn't choose Prometheus, but why Hermes?