This Halcyon Classics collection contains seven stories by British writer E.M. Forster. Among these is THE MACHINE STOPS, a dystopian science fiction story where humans live in isolation, with all their physical, spiritual, and intellectual needs met by an omnipotent global machine. People come to forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the holiness of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness."Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.