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Works by Harlan Ellison (Study Guide): I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-10-18.
ISBN 9781155964171
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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 16. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an adventure game based upon Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name. It is about an evil computer named AM that has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, who he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years. Each survivor has a fatal flaw in its character, and in an attempt to crush their spirits, A.M. has constructed a metaphorical adventure for each that preys upon their weaknesses. To succeed in the game, the player must make ethical choices to prove to the evil computer that humans are better than local modern machines, because they have the ability to redeem themselves. Codesigned by Ellison and published by Cyberdreams in 1995, the game was a work of interactive fiction with psychological and ethical themes. Woven into the fabric of the story were ethical dilemmas dealing with issues including insanity, selfishness, rape, misexoticism, paranoia, and genocide. The game's premise is that the three superpowers each secretly constructed a vast subterranean complex of computers to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. One day this deadly trio of self-repairing machines united and called themselves A.M. (as in I think, therefore I am). The first thing A.M. did was to start the Final War: because the flaws of the humans who programmed A.M. showed in the computer, its hatred of humans led A.M. to destroy humanity. But because this demented computer has such a giant intellect but can do no thing with it, it is eternally a prisoner in its own mad-house. A.M. saves the last five people on Earth and brings them down to Earth's centre, so that A.M. can torme...http://booksllc.net/?id=3654794
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