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Mind-Reading Tech and Power Struggles - Does 'The Forever Machine' hold up?

Tonight I review Mark Clifton's and Frank Riley's 1955 Hugo award winning novel "The Forever Machine". I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations and I rank it on our ever growing Sci-Fi shed ladder where I have been reading and ranking all the Hugo and/or Nebula award winning novels. 00:00 Intro 00:47 Plot overview 03:15 What I Liked 05:38 What I didn't like 07:40 Memory Test 10:01 Recommendations and Similar Novels 14:33 Ranking 20:22 Your Feedback Over the last year I have reread over 70 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder. I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels. 1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept) 2. Execution of the concept 3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting) 4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing) 5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test) 6. Plot (interesting twists and turns) 7. Ending (does the ending satisfy) Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels    • Hugo Winners   Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels    • Nebula Winners   The Shed Ladder Rankings 1 Hyperion - Dan Simmons 2 Dune - Frank Herbert 3 Gateway Frederik Pohl 4 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr 5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card 6 Way Station - Clifford Symak 7 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke 8 Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis 9 Spin - Robert Charles Wilson 10 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer 11 A Case of Conscience - James Blish 12 Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine 13 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman 14 The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine 15 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine 16 This Immortal - Roger Zelazny 17 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke 18 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein 19 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein 20 Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein 21 Ringworld - Larry Niven 22 The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe 23 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick 24 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester 25 Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold 26 Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson 27 The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu 28 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny 29 Moving Mars - Greg Bear 30 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge 31 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi 32 Redshirts - John Scalzi 33 To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis 34 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke 35 Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes 36 Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin 37 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 38 Among Others - Jo Walton 39 The Uplift War - David Brin 40 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge 41 Startide Rising - David Brin 42 Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov 43 The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera 44 The Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark 45 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov 46 The City and the City - China Mieville 47 Man Plus - Frederik Pohl 48 Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney 49 Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm 50 Double Star - Robert Heinlein 51 A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine 52 Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie 53 Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner 54 Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson 55 Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold 56 A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberh 57 Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher 58 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman 59 The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer 60 The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro 61 The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney 62 Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre 63 The Wanderer - Fritz Leiber 64 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber 65 Timescape - Gregory Benford 66 No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop 67 The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy 68 Slow River - Nicola Griffith 69 The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin 70 The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin 71 The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin