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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story. It was reprinted by the Library of America, collected in volume two (Terror and the Uncanny, from the 1940s to Now) of American Fantastic Tales.
Plot
In a dystopian future, the Cold War has degenerated into a brutal world war between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, who have each built an "Allied Mastercomputer" (or AM) to manage their weapons and troops. One of the AMs eventually acquires self-awareness and, after assimilating the other two AMs, takes control of the conflict, giving way to a vast genocide operation that almost completely ends mankind. 109 years later, AM has left only four men and one woman alive and keeps them in captivity within an endless underground housing complex, the only habitable place left on Earth. AM derives its sole semblance of pleasure from torturing the group. To disallow the humans from escaping its torment, AM has rendered the humans virtually immortal and unable to commit suicide.
The machines are each referred to as "AM", which originally stood for "Allied Mastercomputer", but was changed to "Adaptive Manipulator" and later (after gaining sentience) "Aggressive Menace". It finally refers to itself as purely "AM", referring to the phrase "I think, therefore I am."
The story's narrative begins with AM projecting a hologram of Gorrister to the other humans, hanging upside down, dripping blood and unresponsive. The real Gorrister joins the group to their surprise, and they realize it was another one of AM's illusions. Nimdok has the idea that there is canned food somewhere in the great complex. The humans are always near starvation under AM's rule, and any time they are given food, it is always a disgusting meal that they have difficulty eating. Because of their great hunger, the humans are coerced into making the long journey to the place where the food is supposedly kept – the ice caves. Along the way, the machine provides foul sustenance, sends horrible monsters after them, emits earsplitting sounds, and blinds Benny when he tries to escape.
On more than one occasion, the group is separated by AM's obstacles. At one point, the narrator, Ted, is knocked unconscious and begins dreaming. He envisions the computer, anthropomorphized, standing over a hole in his brain speaking to him directly. Based on this nightmare, Ted comes to a conclusion about AM's nature, specifically why it has so much contempt for humanity; despite its abilities, it lacks the sapience to be creative or the ability to move freely. It wants nothing more than to exact revenge on humanity by torturing the last remnants of the species that created it.
The group reaches the ice caves, where indeed there is a pile of canned goods. The group is overjoyed to find them, but is immediately crestfallen to find that they have no means of opening them. In a final act of desperation and sheer primal hunger, Benny attacks Gorrister and begins to gnaw at the flesh on his face. Ted, in a moment of clarity, realizes their only escape is through death. He seizes a stalactite made of ice and kills Benny and Gorrister. Ellen realizes what Ted is doing, and kills Nimdok, before being killed herself by Ted. Ted is stopped by AM before he can kill himself. AM, unable to return Ted's four companions to life, focuses all its rage on Ted.
The story flashforwards hundreds of years later, and AM has slowly transformed Ted into a "great soft jelly thing", incapable of causing itself harm, and constantly alters his perception of time to deepen his anguish. Ted, however, is grateful that he was able to save the others from further torture. Ted's closing thoughts end with the sentence that gives the story its title: "I have no mouth. And I must scream."
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KEATING DENIES 'ARSE END' REMARK
By PETER GILL
Jun 24, 1994 – 10.00am
THE Prime Ministerial vision of a proudly independent Australia making its own way in the world has been threatened by claims from his predecessor that Mr Keating described Australia as the "arse end of the world".
The acrimony of the 1991 leadership challenge resurfaced yesterday with Mr Keating denying the claim by Mr Bob Hawke that he disparaged Australia in an argument over the Labor leadership.
The public debate between present and former prime ministers was played out on the nation's airwaves yesterday and threatens to become a political brushfire for the Government.
Mr Keating "explicitly and categorically denied" a television report that he would leave Australia if he did not secure the prime ministership because"this is the arse end of the world".
"The allegation is deeply offensive and defamatory. It isclearly intended to personally vilify and politically damage me," Mr Keating said last night.
"People can choose to believe the record, and what is on the record - the real, tangible testaments of my affection for Australia and devotion to its interests - or they can believe Mr Hawke's alleged fragment of a private conversation," he said.
Earlier yesterday, Mr Keating said he could not remember making the comment to Mr Hawke and suggested he had often made the point that Australia was a long way from everywhere.
But Mr Hawke responded that his memoirs - in which the alleged conversation will appear - "doesn't sustain the proposition" that the comment was made in any geographical context. A spokesman for the Prime Minister said Mr Keating and Mr Hawke had different recollections of the event in question and added that it would "come down to a historical debate".
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Downer, said that "if it is true that Mr Keating has described my country in that way, then I feel very sad about it, because I think I can speak for 17 million Australians and say that we love our country".
Meanwhile, amid rowdy scenes in the Senate, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Evans - in a direct attack on Mr Downer's British wife - said the Prime Minister and his family did not have to be "pushed" into becoming Australian citizens.
Mr Downer said the "unprovoked attack" on his wife "marks a new low-point in national politics".
Senator Evans responded with an apology to Mrs Downer but said the low-point in recent politics was the Opposition's "grotesque and utterly groundless attack on the character and reputation of (former senator) Graham Richardson".
https://www.afr.com/politics/keating-denies-arse-end-remark-19940624-k5ydx