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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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There are many ironic things inside this book. Or even before you get inside the book. Let's start with the first four words of the title. I Have No Mouth…. Was famously outspoken Harlan Ellison laughing at us when he wrote that? The same sharp-tongued Harlan Ellison whose rants were almost as famous as his books?

No mouth? Harlan Ellison?

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