The Eternal Moment

For the 2011 Chinese film, see Eternal Moment. For the 2021 Chilean film, see The Eternal Moment (film).

The Eternal Moment and Other Stories is the title of a collection of short stories by E. M. Forster, first published in 1928 by Sidgwick & Jackson. It contains stories written between about 1903 and 1914. Together with the stories contained in The Celestial Omnibus (1911), it was collected as Forster's Collected Short Stories in 1947. All of the included material deals with science fiction or supernatural themes, except for the title story, which includes several elements (English travelers in southern Europe, an interrupted moment of passion on a mountaintop) that would later be revisited in Forster's novel A Room with a View.

The Eternal Moment

Dust jacket of the first edition
Author	E. M. Forster
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy Science fiction
Publisher	Sidgwick & Jackson
Publication date	1928
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	185 pp

The collection bears the dedication: "To T. E. in the absence of anything else."^[1]

Contents

• "The Machine Stops"
• "The Point of It"
• "Mr. Andrews"
• "Co-ordination"
• "The Story of the Siren"
• "The Eternal Moment"