FORSTER, E(dward) M(organ)
- FORSTER, E(dward) M(organ)
(1879-1970)
UK writer of essays and novels, the best known being A Passage to India (1924). The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories (coll 1911) assembles several fantasies of interest, but EMF's importance to sf lies wholly in his short story "The Machine Stops" (1909), collected in The Eternal Moment (coll 1928), which includes further fantasies. Bothbooks were assembled as Collected Short Stories (coll 1947; vt Collected Tales 1974 US). Cast in the form of a warning look at the distant future,rather in the mode of H.G. WELLS's THE TIME MACHINE (1895), "The Machine Stops" directly attacks, as many critics noted and as EMF himselfacknowledged, the rational World State that Wells promulgated in A Modern Utopia (1905). In the hivelike underground society EMF envisions, freedomand (paramountly) the value of the individual human's personal relations with others of his kind have been eliminated. When the state collapses - when the machine stops - the depersonalized ciphers underground perish, while above, on the surface, a few genuine humans survive. In any study of the relation of DYSTOPIA to UTOPIA, the story is of vital interest.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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2011.
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Forster, E(dward) M(organ) — For·ster (fôrʹstər), E(dward) M(organ). 1879 1970. British writer whose novels, such as A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910), explore the emotional and moral shortcomings of England s upper classes. * * * born Jan. 1, 1879, London,… … Universalium
Forster, E(dward) M(organ) — (1 ene. 1879, Londres, Inglaterra–7 jun. 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire). Escritor británico. Forster nació en el seno de una familia de clase media acomodada. Estudió en la Universidad de Cambridge, y desde 1907, aproximadamente, fue miembro del… … Enciclopedia Universal
Forster — [fô′stər; ] in the US, usually [ fôr′stər] E(dward) M(organ) 1879 1970; Eng. novelist … English World dictionary
Forster — I. /ˈfɔstə/ (say fawstuh) noun 1. E(dward) M(organ), 1879–1970, English novelist and member of the Bloomsbury Group; noted for A Room with a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924). 2. Henry William (1st Baron Foster of Lepe), 1866–1936,… …
Forster — /fawr steuhr/, n. E(dward) M(organ), 1879 1970, English novelist. * * * ▪ New South Wales, Australia town, eastern New South Wales, Australia, on Cape Hawke south of the entrance to Lake Wallis, a 30 square mile (80 square km) coastal… … Universalium
Forster — biographical name E(dward) M(organ) 1879 1970 British novelist • Forsterian adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
Forster — For•ster [[t]ˈfɔr stər[/t]] n. big E(dward) M(organ), 1879–1970, English novelist … From formal English to slang
Forster — /fawr steuhr/, n. E(dward) M(organ), 1879 1970, English novelist … Useful english dictionary
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Morgan — Morgan, August Morgan, Charles Morgan, Henry John Morgan, Jacques Jean Marie de Morgan, Lewis Henry * * * (as used in expressions) Forster, E(dward) M(organ) J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Morgan, Daniel … Enciclopedia Universal
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