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The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
Written by E. M. Forster 3 audiobooks with Academy Voices
Forster was an English novelist and essayist. More about E. M. Forster →
Mike Polischuk
Read by a real person Mike Polischuk 30 audiobooks with Academy Voices
After kicking around the edges of VO over the last 7 years or so, I decided last year to jump into the pool and start putting some of my 'online learn… Hear more from Mike →
Sci-Fi

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster · read by Mike Polischuk · 1 hr 34 min

Everyone in the future lives alone in a small underground room and talks to others through a screen. The Machine provides food, music and company, and everyone has stopped thinking of it as something people made.

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Everyone in the future lives alone in a small underground room and talks to others through a screen. The Machine provides food, music and company, and everyone has stopped thinking of it as something people made. Vashti is content. Her son Kuno wants to visit the surface of the Earth, and he is sure something is wrong. E. M. Forster's 1909 science fiction story, uncannily close to modern life, read by Mike Polischuk. For readers of Brave New World and 1984.

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Details
Length
1 hr 34 min
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
May 2025
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798347358953
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Who narrates The Machine Stops audiobook?

This edition of The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is narrated by Mike Polischuk.

How long is The Machine Stops audiobook?

It runs 1 hr 34 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.

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