AM, vengeful with a seething hatred of humanity for creating its tortured existence, tortures the five by altering their personalities, keeping them on the brink of starvation but never allowing them to die. They live in a massive, endless complex, the only inhabitable place on Earth. He left five humans alive: Gorrister, Benny, Nimdok, Ellen, and Ted, the narrator. AM, short for "Allied Mastercomputer" at first and eventually "Aggressive Menace," became self-aware and absorbed the other two supercomputers and proceeded to carry out a mass genocide on humanity. In the story, the Cold War became a World War, and the United States, Russia, and China each created supercomputers to run it. Set 103 years after the demise of humanity, the story follows five slaves to AM, a supercomputer created by a superpower in the Cold War. In addition to being adapted in a popular computer game, it has been adapted as a comic book and radio play. It later became the title of Ellison's short story collection and was reprinted by the Library of America. The story was first published in March of 1967 in IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story's title has been turned into a snowclone with the format "I Have No X and I Must Y." History The story was later adapted into a point-and-click computer game which Ellison himself helped write. It takes place in a future in which a supercomputer called AM has become sentient and carried out a mass genocide of humanity, leaving four men and one woman alive, who he tortures for eternity, preventing them from killing themselves and making them virtually immortal. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is a science-fiction short story written by Harlan Ellison. Literature, science fiction, short story About
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