The Short Fiction of E. M. Forster

This collection gathers the short fiction of E. M. Forster, the novelist of Howards End and A Passage to India. Alongside gentle fantasies and stories touched by Greek myth and the Italian landscape stands his most famous tale, The Machine Stops, a startling piece of early science fiction in which humanity lives isolated underground, each person alone in a cell and served entirely by a vast Machine, until the Machine begins to fail. Written in 1909, it reads today as an uncanny prophecy of a world bound together and hollowed out by technology. The other tales show Forster’s lighter, more playful imagination. This free PDF and EPUB presents his collected short stories.