The collection of short stories, The Machine has stopped, in a second, completed edition, is one of Dionysis Kalamvrezos’ most characteristic artistic and philosophical credentials in conventional and fantasy literature.
The Machine’s heroes march stressed and weary across deserts, organize absurd revolutions, or wander fearful and insecure in totalitarian and threatening environments. Sometimes they seek ways back from dark places of the future or dream of phantasmagoric visions of greatness and power. Always, however, groping in the darkness, they try not to get lost in the labyrinths of nervous synapses and seek their destiny with agony and perseverance, but often with limited resources.
