I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Ellison, Harlan. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." If March 1967. Coll. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. New York: Pyramid, 1967. Frequently rpt., including Man Unwept. Stephen V. Whaley and Stanley J. Cook, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here. James Gunn, ed. New York: NAL, 1979. Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. Patricia S. Warrick et al., eds. New York: Harper, 1988. See Contento, Index, for other locations.

The interior monologue of the "last man," trapped inside the malevolent computer AM. An important work for the study of mechanized environments. See under Literary Criticism the CW essay by C. W. Sullivan, "Harlan Ellison and Robert A. Heinlein: The Paradigm Makers." See entry for J. Sladek, The Müller-Fokker Effect. For background of the story in Dante, see Jeremy Withers's Medieval and Futuristic Hells: The Influence of Dante on Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”.

Discussed in some detail in the article in the on-line encyclopedia.com, as of Jan. 2023 available at link here.[1]

RDE, revised 21Dec17; 1Jan23