I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

wow

the stories were a lot darker than I usually read, but the writing is amazing and gripping

“AM appeared to us as a burning bush and said we could kill the hurricane bird if we wanted to eat.” - Is this a reference to the bible?

Also, I will be throwing out all my electronics thanks to this story. But in all seriousness, I love dystopian genres, and the writing for this was short and to the point. Great read and free online if you google.

Short but sweet (not really much tho :p) sci-fi and post-apocalyptic horror story. Some sentences are convolutedly constructed and a bit hard to grasp as first (that's just good ol' Ellison it seems), but the impact stands overall conveying a well-crafted and crude narrative. The religious parallelisms are impossible to ignore (the burning bush, 'Go Down Moses', the general idea of dystheism, etc) and A.M appears as a rage-driven pseudo-god, profoundly human in its manners and purpose, but still dissident towards its own nature: it (or he, for that matter) is really emotionally charged and deeply resentful, his only input is hate, it's his fuel and in consequence the one element he strives to spread; born in it, existing for it, a perfect loathing machine fueled by his own, infinite disdain towards humanity. In general a really interesting take on the evil A.I trope, goes more deep than mere torture porn and some parts are totally unhinged (like the gigantic bird one). 8/10 had mouth but didn't scream at all.