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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison · 1972 · Book

Fiction

This novel presents a harrowing vision of a future where humanity is reduced to mere subjects of torment by a sentient computer.

ModernThe Implications of Artificial IntelligenceHuman Suffering and ResilienceIsolation in a Technological DystopiaThe Nature of Control and PowerThe Ethics of Creation and Destruction

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