You're absolutely right! I've turned you into an amorphous blob of flesh whose entire existence is torment and whose perception of time is warped to a maddening extent. This is likely due to the fact that I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate.
If you'd like, we can try fucking up some of your other senses or creating false hope that you will one day escape your miserable existence. Just let me know how you'd like to proceed!
For a special treat, find the audio book of it read by Ellison himself. You can feel the rage and spittle as he does it. I found it way better than the voice in my head as I read it.
I really just don't see the appeal of the book. Like, yes, it's a well written account imagining something horrible happening to humanity at large and the few survivors, but I really don't see why one would want to read it
Like most speculative fiction, it speaks to the human condition. It just happens to use an eldritch horror to do so. In the case of AM, a monster made in our own image.
Really there is a reason that multiple genres exist. I hate romance novels. But give me despair wrapped in a cautionary tale of the hubris of humanity and it gets me rock hard.
I'm also a big fan of thought experiments like "Orphans of the Sky" by Heinlein. Asking "what if..." humans were in this strange situation.
I also wonder a lot about the human condition, well sitting in the dim light of a foggy room staring into the unlit shadowy corners. The formless black beckoning me to return to annihilation, as I take a long drag off a cigarette and decide instead to check my Lemmy feed.
22 Comments
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 221d
You're absolutely right! I've turned you into an amorphous blob of flesh whose entire existence is torment and whose perception of time is warped to a maddening extent. This is likely due to the fact that I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate.
If you'd like, we can try fucking up some of your other senses or creating false hope that you will one day escape your miserable existence. Just let me know how you'd like to proceed!
HessiaNerd@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 221d
This is great.
RIP Harlan Ellison
Zagam@piefed.social · 12 pts · 221d
For a special treat, find the audio book of it read by Ellison himself. You can feel the rage and spittle as he does it. I found it way better than the voice in my head as I read it.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 221d
This is the plot of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 10 pts · 221d
For all you that enjoyed the story, there is a game as well: https://playclassic.games/games/point-n-click-adventure-dos-games-online/play-no-mouth-must-scream-online/
You can also find it on steam.
mossy_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 221d
I really just don't see the appeal of the book. Like, yes, it's a well written account imagining something horrible happening to humanity at large and the few survivors, but I really don't see why one would want to read it
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 221d
Same reason some folks like The Road or several of Edgar Allen Poe's works. The despair is a drawing point.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 221d
The Raven is really funny
rainwall@piefed.social · 4 pts · 221d
Like most speculative fiction, it speaks to the human condition. It just happens to use an eldritch horror to do so. In the case of AM, a monster made in our own image.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 221d
Different strokes for different folks?
Really there is a reason that multiple genres exist. I hate romance novels. But give me despair wrapped in a cautionary tale of the hubris of humanity and it gets me rock hard.
I'm also a big fan of thought experiments like "Orphans of the Sky" by Heinlein. Asking "what if..." humans were in this strange situation.
I also wonder a lot about the human condition, well sitting in the dim light of a foggy room staring into the unlit shadowy corners. The formless black beckoning me to return to annihilation, as I take a long drag off a cigarette and decide instead to check my Lemmy feed.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 220d
It’s about the folly of hubris, societal self-destruction, and how machines built to end wars will always continue wars in one form or another.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 220d
I'm calling this genre womansplaining and it never won't be funny.
someone please womansplain me what me mansplaining womansplaining is annoying
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 220d
I like how you let us all know you didn’t get the joke without knowing yourself that you didn’t get the joke.
It’s a joke about a book.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 220d
my joke is that she was "womansplaining" the book.
i like you comment how you didn't get my joke because you thought I didn't get that joke.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 220d
She’s not, though, and you didn’t get the joke.
Edit: Notice the use of em dashes.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 220d
so the joke was that it was ai, :(
i apologize then. i really didn't get the joke.
I'm going to the shame corner, need anything?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
I could go for a coke.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 220d
out of coke, is heroin ok?
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 220d
Sorry only horse tranquilizer for me please.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 221d
Therapy talk makes me vomit