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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison,

Theodore Sturgeon (Introduction)

Start date: July 1, 2019

Finish date: July 31, 2019

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Jul 02, 2015 Yair Ben-Zvi rated it really liked it

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It took me a while to get to this review for various reasons. First and foremost: I'm busy. Between three jobs, graduate school, and thinking about that wonderful thing people call 'the future' hasn't left me as much time as I'd like for my little rantings and ravings about literature. But, I'm here now, let's jump in.

This book, on a conceptual level, is expertly written. Harlan Ellison knows how to tell a story with a brilliant concept and work it out to some wonderful and at times even surpris ...more

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Oct 13, 2025 Radwa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, short-stories, e-books, adult, sci-fi, dystopia, classics, depressive-miserable

It gives that perfect feeling of clausterphobia, and I enjoyed it (is enjoyment even the right word for it?) AI becoming a vindictive god and playing with a few remaining humans in a fit of rage. It was horrifying and by the end, I did want to scream.

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Feb 23, 2017 Rachel rated it liked it · review of another edition

The best way to describe Harlan Ellison's prose would be "lyrical." This short collection of stories varies from from a hopeless, post-apocalyptic landscape to the a contemporary California in an emotional spiral after his divorce. Just describing the plot likely won't hook you. It's Ellison's words that do all the heavy lifting in his stories. This collection of stories was published in the late 1960s and Ellison's views on women tend to reflect this. But this shouldn't let it deter you from re ...more

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