The relationship between man and machine has been a symbiotic one. The existence of machine has contributed to the evolution of sophisticated life style of the human kind. And on the other hand man has been always striving to create the ultimate machine. Literature has been a fore runner for some of the ideas on which inventions have found have platform. In this paper the authors have tried to correlate literature with machines and technology. For this a study of technology in science fiction especially hard science fiction and also soft science fiction has been done. © 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.