E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909) is an anomaly in his literary career. Not only is this story one of his very few science fiction works, but it is also one of the first dystopian science fiction works in the English language. Nonetheless, until recently it has received rather scant critical attention. Among the critical studies to date, the spatial environment in this short story has received no critical consideration. This study attempts to illustrate the possibilities of approaching this narrative in more spatial terms. Specifically, it seeks to explore the spatial configurations and how they relate to dystopian aesthetics, how corporal disintegration as represented in this short story is correlated to a loss of self-identity. The theoretical backdrop of this study falls within the purview of the so-called “spatial turn” in literary studies and will partially draw on postmodern aspects of spatiality developed by Fredric Jameson.