I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Themes
This story carries the theme of man's subjugation to his own systems to a nightmarish conclusion. The warring nations of the world had each created giant computers, called AMs, the purpose of which was to destroy their enemies. Unfortunately, however, these computers had linked themselves into one monstrous AM, which systematically used its "killing data" to wipe out all but five of the entire human race. AM now imprisons these five wretches, four men and a woman, in its belly and tortures them repeatedly in bizarre and humiliating ways. According to the narrator, Ted, the youngest of...
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