![]() ![]() ![]() It quickly runs data to kill all on Earth except for five survivors on whom to play out its sadistic and revenge-filled games. The computers created by humans to fight their wars for them join together into one linked and unified computer, AM, which discovers sentience. “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is a horrifying look into a post-apocalyptic hell. Perhaps more accurately, the story can be read simultaneously as all of the above. ![]() One of Ellison’s most frequently anthologized stories, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” can be read as a cautionary tale about nuclear proliferation, as a warning about the relationship between people and computers, or as an expression of the destructive power of thwarted creativity. The story won a Hugo Award in 1968 and quickly became a favorite story among Ellison’s readers and critics alike. It was later collected in the book I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, also published in 1967. Harlan Ellison’s short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” originally appeared in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. ![]()
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