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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison

First published: 1974

Description

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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