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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. Among Ellison’s more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume’s concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.
Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won’t call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.
CONTENTS
“I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream”
“Big Sam Was My Friend”
“Eyes of Dust”
“World of the Myth”
“Lonelyache”
“Delusion for Dragonslayer”
“Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes”
RECOMMENDED BY
Kirby
“Most of the time I thought of AM as it, without a soul; but the rest of the time I thought of it as him, in the masculine … the paternal … the patriarchal … for he is a jealous people. Him. It. God as Daddy the Deranged.”
▸ It was a very depressing read, but it did show the resilience of the human spirit against the soullessness of a robot. Especially with Ted sacrificing himself not by dying, but being forever alive.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5 / 5
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