The Machine

'''Campbell, John W. (writing as Don A. Stuart). "The Machine."' Astounding'' Feb. 1935. Coll. Cloak of Aesir. Chicago: Shasta, 1952. The Best of John W. Campbell (listed under Anthologies and Collections). Rpt. The Golden Age of Science Fiction (vt). Groff Conklin, ed. New York: Crown (Bonanza), 1946 as The Best of Science Fiction; rev. edn. 1963, 1980.

Gaht, "the Machine who gave all things" to the future humanity in this story, departs the Earth (as it had departed the world of its makers), forcing the human race to fend for itself again. Very similar to E.M. Forster's "Machine Stops" (q.v. this section), but with a more positive ending.