What Is It?
The YouTube video I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream – The End Of The Apocalypse – Extra Sci Fi by the YouTube channel Extra Credits:
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Harlan Ellison was a little dismissive of this short story that you’ve might only heard of because you saw it on a Steam summer sale, but at the time of its publication (1967) its ideas about the possibility of “evil AI,” as well as the possible degeneracy of humanity, were shocking and unexpected, and it set the stage for the wave of sci-fi we’ll talk about next season: New Wave!
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My Thoughts
Yesterday the YouTube channel had a video about a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison called I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which is an amazing title, and the video was called
The title of that short story caught my attention immediately, there is something about it that I find pretty amazing and poetic and symbolic et cetera, and now I want to read this short story one day.
From what this video describes, it sounds like a story that I will like, hopefully I will get a chance to read it.
From how this short story was described, it partly reminds me of a dream that my brother GC had back when he was in public school.
In his dream, some scientists made a weapon (maybe bomb) that was strong enough to destroy the entire world.
Someone asked them why did they make such a dangerous weapon, and they did not even know why; and maybe the world was at risk of being destroyed by it.
The end,
- John Jr
5 replies on “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream – The End Of The Apocalypse – Extra Sci Fi”
I love this story (and of Ellison himself) and hope you enjoy the story as well. Nowadays it is widely considered the first cyber-horror SciFi story.
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Hello The Fattest Leech,
Cool and thank you for sharing that and for commenting, I was not expecting this, when I do read it I will likely make a post about it.
-John Jr
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Hello The Fattest Leech,
I think that I have one or more comments at your blog / website that are currently being held for moderation (like on your latest post) and / or were possibly detected by Akismet as spam (I could be wrong about this one though). 😉
-John Jr
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I will check it out soon when I get back to my computer. Thanks for the update.
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You are welcome, and thank you The Fattest Leech.
-John Jr
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