<story><title>The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)</title><url>http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emiliobumachar</author><text>&amp;quot;Her voice was irritable, for she had been interrupted often since the music began. She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Prescient to the point of being creepy.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)</title><url>http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knattt</author><text>An audiobook version is available for free here:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librivox.org&amp;#x2F;the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;librivox.org&amp;#x2F;the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(librivox is a volunteer&amp;#x2F;non-professional project, so don&amp;#x27;t expect shakespearean acting, but it&amp;#x27;s good enough)</text></comment>