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  • If you like Classic SciFi, allow me to recommend The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

    It includes 24 public domain works by numerous authors such as Verne, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Wells and others. It includes the initial John Carter of Mars books by Burroughs, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and many more.

    It also includes one of my favorite stories, The Machine Stops by E M Forster. This story just wows me. It’s about a society that lives in little apartments in huge underground arcologies that are all run by The Machine. It provides everything they need including food and air. While the arcologies are huge, the people never go outside and rarely if ever leave their pods (apartments) or see each other outside of video chats on social media. Many of the people have come to see The Machine as God.

    The Machine Stops basically predicts modern social media and all it’s isolating and deleterious effects and it was written in 1928 before the electronic computer was even invented!