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A haunting vision of the future written in 1909, The Machine Stops follows Vashti and her son Kuno in a world where humanity has retreated underground, living in isolated pods entirely dependent on a vast, all-powerful Machine that fulfills every need — communication, food, ideas, comfort. When Kuno begins to question their total reliance on...
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