My wife was listening to a radio programme the other day and heard a man talking about artificial intelligence. He mentioned a science fiction novella by EM Forster called The Machine Stops, published ...

THE York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre production of E M Forster's sci-fi 1909 short story The Machine Stops is to be revived for a second run in York before embarking on a national tour. Such was ...

QUESTION What was the first sci-fi novel to tackle the concept of artificial intelligence? AI first appeared in Samuel Butler's novel Erewhon (1872); however, E.M. Forster's short story The Machine ...

Theatre Works will present the Melbourne premiere of The Machine Stops, a bold new stage adaptation by Briony Dunn based on the prophetic novella by E.M. Forster. Performances will run from 22–30 ...

In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient. One does not normally associate E. M. Forster with science fiction: he is considered ...