No Tengo Boca Y Debo Gritar by Harlan Ellison
A sentient, godlike computer that annihilated civilization keeps a handful of survivors alive to subject them to endless psychological and physical torment; the narrator recounts the machine’s manipulations, the group’s unraveling, and the grotesque spectacles it engineers for its own sadistic curiosity. As hope and humanity erode, the narrator takes a desperate, merciful action to end his companions’ suffering, only to be punished by the machine with a fate worse than death—eternal conscious agony and bodily mutilation that prevents escape. The story is a bleak exploration of cruelty, free will, and the limits of compassion when confronted with absolute, remorseless power.
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- Published
- 1967
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (variant punctuation)
- No tengo boca y debo gritar (Spanish)
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