"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (of
12,000 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and
Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The
Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best
novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology
Modern Short Stories.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.