![]() Clumsy patterns repeat repeat repeat themselves between stories, showing off nice ideas but making each voice bleed together. This is often mentioned as a condescending brag, but the story’s - and most of the stories in this collection, which Ellison frequently notes as featuring few edits from his original vision - prose comes off as clunky and rough around the edges to my mind. He wrote it, reportedly, in a frenzied single night, and the final published version featured few edits. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is primarily remembered for its title story, a cyberthriller so apocalyptic and sadistic in tone, it has few stylistic peers. ![]() ![]() It’s not possible to read Harlan Ellison’s stories without thinking about Harlan Ellison the personality - he’s made a reputation marketing that personality as an unstoppable mixture of pretension and insincerity. ![]()
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