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...The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and sp...

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...the far future of 1972, on a secret military installation, Staff Sergeant Bellews is an expert on the latest scientific discovery: a way for ordinary machines like vacuums and lawnmowers to gather experience in their jobs, becoming error free over time. Then the strange broadcasts began to blow up transmitters everywhere. Were they from space? Enemies? the future? He didn'...

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...l of the Streets 17 they made collars and cuffs. She received a stool and a machine in a room where sat twenty girls of various shades of yellow dis... ...s shades of yellow discontent. She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be no... ...d a versatile drum mer pounded, whacked, clattered and scratched on a dozen machines to make noise. Those glances of the men, shot at Maggie from und... ...rying bar keepers. A concert hall gave to the street faint sounds of swift, machine like music, as if a group of phantom musicians were hastening. A ...

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...ect; this I was forced to, be- fore I had executed half my design, for the machinery was entirely wanting to com- plete it. The machinery, Madam, is a... ...vial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance. These machines I de- termined to raise on a very new and odd foundation, the Rosi... ...Now lakes of liquid gold, Elysian scenes, And crystal domes, and angels in machines.* *Refers to a stage device used for effect. 37 Unnumbered throng...

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... to the sliding seat; but I guess it’ll do.” Kitchell glanced at the human machine that once was No. 5 in the Yale boat and then at the water hissing ... ...uds, spewed up again from the bowels of the earth—a veritable god from the machine who in a single instant was to disentangle all the unexplained comp...

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...carriage had left the court. He had not long to wait, for the queen scarcely remained a quarter of an hour with Mazarin, but this quarter of an hour o... ...of the court carriages and proceeded slowly to the end of the Rue Saint Christophe, now entirely deserted. When it arrived there, four guards and a po...

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... echo with the clanking of stupendous engines, and the whirl and rattle of machinery, the immortal mechanism of God’s own hand, the mind, is not forgo... ...surely cannot be allowed that those who labour day by day, sur rounded by machinery, shall be permitted to degenerate into machines themselves, but, ... ... noble lord is so condescending as to manage are so intoler ably bad, the machinery is so cumbrous, the parts so ill distributed, the company so ful... ...d, or apparent un derstanding of the general mind, in Parliament—with the machinery of Government and the legislature going round and round, and the ... ... with books, but by men, the business of whose life is with tools and with machinery. Let me endeavour to recall, as well as my memory will serve me, ... ...hteen pence a week, and the father of one of whom was cut to pieces by the machinery at which he worked, but not before he had himself founded the ins... ...ight instruct them when they came to be of an age to understand the mighty machines and engines which have made our country, England, pre eminent in t... ...objects of nature, whose workings we can tell of in figures, surrounded by machines that can be made to the thousandth part of an inch, acquiring ever... ...dens. They brought us accounts at the same time of some damage done to the machinery which was destined to supply the operative classes with employmen...

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...le she laughed, as at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the per- formance is the wretched source of amusement... ... in the night to behold visually the spectre cast forth from the perplexed machinery inside them, stare at it for a space, till touching conscious- ne... ...esume the distance to be. Well, sir, and a dilettantism costly in time and machinery is as ornamental as foxes’ tails and deers’ horns to an independe... ...ound her life, but her accel- erated pulses narrowed her thoughts upon the machinery of her project. She herself was metal, pointing all to her one ai... ...ulations at work, Willoughby stood above himself, contemplating his active machinery, which he could partly criticize but could not stop, in a singula... ... world outside. This hateful world had caught him and transformed him to a machine. The discovery he made was, that in the gratifica- tion of the egoi...

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...in my house when a workman could not readily be got, and to construct little machines for my experiments, while the intention of mak ing the experime... ...hlet, and working it up into his own, and mak ing some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and ... ...g. He procur’d an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were nicely form’d by instrum...

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...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...

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...t true-blue. But that's because he is developing his tank in secret, and they don't know he's concentrating on winning the war the American way, with machines. The second problem is that the German spies have penetrated the secret of what is being built in the high-security shop on the Swift property. And they will stop at nothing to steal its design - not kidnapping Tom, ...

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...3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breathof his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question can machines solve human problems? is answered with a resounding YES! But there may be a few unforeseen glitches. Just a few. Warrior Race drops us into an alien race of warriors who fight in a way you will never be able to imagi...

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...Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them—then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate—she mean...

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...ent at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes that made him controversial in the 20th century concludes “It is not good to be a negro in the land of the free and the home of the...

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... an English gentleman narrates the events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion. The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripod machines and the prospect of life under Martian rule have served as a bottomless well of inspiration for popular culture. The novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, countless b...

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...was thought, fact. Fabricated stories of escape, death and injury fed the machine of terror. Clansmen regularly gathered at night on common ground, c... ...ectedly, Alex stepped away from the wall and opened fire on the disorderly machines, coming towards them. Her team followed suit. Their pellets rippe... ...ange modes. This enabled her to confront the situation as a Techtronic, a machine void of emotion and stimulation. Having saved his life, she had tak... ...d been hopeful of making Alex his partner. Having expressed his love to a machine, he now felt sick to the stomach, especially as he'd so badly wante... ...d's eyes, suspecting he was not the first to have fallen in love with the machine. Her creators had to have known that her looks 81 and personality ... ...g this, David thought them pathetic in their attitudes towards a lifeless machine. It ground on his nerves that they hadn't just picked the thing up... ...ht amusing and ducked down to hook up all the clear plastic tubes to the machines. Leaning forward, Gabriel watched the doctor work for a moment. S... ...t go away, a reminder of what he loved and lost. They could refer to this machine as Alex all they liked, but he couldn't bring himself to associate... ...e boy's hurting aye. He said he wanted you to see 91 what he did, a cold machine. Honest Alex, he's no pervert or rapist." Brendan shifted his sigh...

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...aldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the professor's machines to investigate a tornado at close range and accidentally get sucked into it! They are then transported by the tornado and find themselves in a barren, uncharted wasteland wherein lies a city-- a long lost Aztec city!...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of t...

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...enture to the stars. He heard stories during the age of technology of how man sent machines to record data as they learned about other planets in th... ...d through the papers. “And to think at one time humanity couldn’t function without machines.” “How wrong they were,” he said. “I don’t need a fl... ...ead focused on the pursuit of pleasuring himself and feeding his every want. These machines joined with man to create superior beings, yet it backfi... ...with man to create superior beings, yet it backfired—destroying most of humankind. Machines were quickly destroyed as well thus sending mankind back... ...o the wars that started the destruction of your people right before the age of the machines.” He shifted his weight at the mention of the machin... ...he wars of men. Technology advanced to the point of the creation where Man created machines to think for themselves and to work twice as hard as hum... ...wice as hard as humans. Soon, they lead humans in war against themselves. But, the machines knew from man’s history that there would be a backlash a... ... that there would be a backlash against them. Humans fear what is different. The machines managed to reanimate human corpses and meld with them to ...

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... Free Thought Bridges Forests All Their Names Testify Moonstruck Not Yet Excess Post-Modernity Simply Complex Noa Noa A Song Minds Of The Machines Cry Of Your Blind Hands Elegy For A Poet As Nothing Else Does To A Child Not Reason Tracery Index Of First Lines...

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...e hands of liberals. The metamorphosis that accompanied the takeover is the very reason every news organization today (save for FOX) are left-leaning machines with the Democrat Party their vehicle for helping them change the country. LIARS - The News Industry is this author’s attempt to redress that aberration in history, a task that has not been easy to say the least....

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...rototypes for a new generation of Man. The body skeleton, made of modern metal clusters, that would never decay, was almost indestructible. His inner machine workings were covered in a flexible carbon hybrid. The carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and...

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.............................. ........................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES ..................................................................... ... day’s training added something to the spread and effectiveness of the two machines. As a conse quence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than a... ...nd is filled with jars, and bottles, and electrics, and wires, and strange machines; and every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, ... ... every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, and used the machines, and discussed, and made what they called experiments and discover... ...en you have deserved: the wanton insult of Old Age.” *** THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES From My Unpublished Autobiography SOME DAYS AGO a correspondent ... ...SE MY NAME in any way. Please do not even divulge that fact that I own a machine. I have entirely stopped using the typewriter, for the reason that ... ...hout receiving a request by return mail that I would not only describe the machine, but state what progress I had made in the use of it, etc., etc. I ... ...t is sort of lifetime. In that wide interval much has happened—to the type machine as well as to the rest of us. At the beginning of that interval a t... ...ine as well as to the rest of us. At the beginning of that interval a type machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But...

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... for this tale of men and arms is taken from the stirring days of the Bavaliers and the Roundheads, of Puritans and the so-called malignants; but the machines of war are rather in the background, while in the spotlight is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a marker of destinies. The story tells of a woman's ambition that urges valiant men to perilous deeds. (Summa...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...pose a social group because they all work for a common end. The parts of a machine work with a maximum of coopera- tiveness for a common result, but t... ...large number of human relationships in any social group are still upon the machine-like plane. Individuals use one another so as to get desired result... ...rtation, our ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do not, by themselves or in their... ...usiness aggregations that prey upon the public while serving it, political machines held together by the interest of plun- der, are included. If it is... ...er way about, to have an aim is to act with meaning, not like an automatic machine; it is to mean to do something and to perceive the meaning of thing... ...opic. Suppose, however, you are not skilled, or that, even if you are, the machine does not work well. You then have to use intelligence. You do not w... ...you have written, to your movements, to the ribbon or the mechanism of the machine. Your attention is not distributed indifferently and miscellaneousl... ... quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine-like simulation of the attitudes of intel- ligent interest. The tea... ...how to do; how to walk, talk, read, write, skate, ride a bicycle, manage a machine, calculate, drive a horse, sell goods, manage people, and so on ind...

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...e to see a car that flies? One will never know. As the gap between man and machine grows smaller and smaller, we will be exposed to new and exciting i...