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Old 03-07-2019, 12:44 PM   #42 (permalink)
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OTOH it solves the 'global warming' conundrum.

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The Machine Stops
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review, 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...
Author:E. M. Forster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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