I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

first published 1974 Ace Books, 1983 178 pages

This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it was too complicated for humans to manage, so the three major superpowers each developed a computer program to help run the war. When one of the programs becomes sentient it eliminates all of the human race except five persons, which it tortures for eternity.

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream audiobook · 2002 · Audio Literature · 9781574535372
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream edition · 1984 · Ace Books · 9780441363957
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream edition · 1983 · Ace Books · 178 pages · 9780441363940

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