I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

“AM appeared to us as a burning bush and said we could kill the hurricane bird if we wanted to eat.” - Is this a reference to the bible?

Also, I will be throwing out all my electronics thanks to this story. But in all seriousness, I love dystopian genres, and the writing for this was short and to the point. Great read and free online if you google.

Among the 7 stories, the most remarkable was the one that gives the book its name.

It is a very sadistic take on what would an AI turned bad could do to humans that are at its will. The concept was indeed interesting, but I got spoiled by knowing basically everything beforehand. Not a fault of the book itself but I could not help to enjoy it more.

i mean..truly what can you do except applaud. this really is a phenomenal piece of sci-fi horror, the godfather even. the obvious parallels to hell are masterfully woven into the narrative, not to mention the human AND self-hating AI which feels all too relevant now in modern day.

AM is a masterfully written consciousness and our cast of 5 are equally well characterized in their own right, nimdok being the only exception. AM’s motivations being above simply “humans are evil” and being much more nuanced and complex and purely based in spite, making it almost human itself in a backwards way, its almost dumbfounding. what an outstanding piece of literature.

I bought this because I wanted some of that classic golden era short-story fun sci-fi... and I got Harlan Ellison. It's ‘dark' and vivid, and definitely not fun...

There's a thin line between tackling dark story lines in a meaningful way and just indulging in a bit of trauma for entertainment, and this veers uncomfortably close to that line.