Originally published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction, the horror short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” won the Hugo Award in 1968. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, an all-powerful artificial intelligence (AI) has destroyed everything but five people, and it plans to torture them indefinitely. “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is one of Harlan Ellison’s most celebrated works. Managing to be both deeply disturbing and intermittently hopeful, the story is open-ended enough to support multiple interpretations.

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