I Have No Mouth and I must Scream
Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes". Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original. Cover Art by Leo and Diane Dillon |
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All persons, places and organizations in this book—except those clearly in the public domain—are fictitious, and any resemblance that may seem to exist to actual persons, places or organizations living, dead or defunct is purely coincidental. These are works of fiction. First printing, June 2008 Front Cover Illustration by Leo & Diane Dillon.Copyright © 1966 by Leo & Diane Dillon. Renewed, © 1994 by Leo & Diane Dillon. Harlan Ellison website: www.harlanellison.com. "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream" originally appeared in IF: Worlds of Science Fiction, March 1967; copyright © 1967 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Copyright reassigned to Author 3 December 1968. Copyright © 1968 by Harlan Ellison. "Big Sam Was My Friend" originally appeared in Science Fiction Adventures, March 1958; copyright © 1958 by Royal Publications, Inc. Copyright reassigned to Author 18 September 1959. Copyright © 1959 by Harlan Ellison. "Eyes of Dust" originally appeared in Rogue Magazine, December 1959; copyright © 1959 by Greenleaf Publishing Co. Copyright reassigned to Author 18 May 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Harlan Ellison. "World of the Myth," "Lonelyache," "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer" (in a somewhat abbreviated version) and "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" originally appeared in Knight Magazine, August 1964, July 1964, September 1966 and May 1967 respectively; copyright © 1964, 1966, and 1967 by Sirkay Publishing Co. Copyrights on the former three titles reassigned to Author 16 April 1968; copyright on the final title above reassigned to Author 19 September 1967. Copyrights © 1967 and 1968 by Harlan Ellison. NOTE: Each of the preceding titles has been revised for this edition for the first time since publication of the original edition of this volume. All rights reserved by the Author. |
ISBN-13: 978-0-7592-2994-5
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is an Edgeworks Abbey™ Offering in association with E-Reads®.Published by arrangement with the Author and The Kilimanjaro Corporation. |
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First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. 