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title = "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison"
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date = 2018-08-23
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tags = ["books", "harlan ellison", "reviews", "scifi", "4 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415459.I_Have_No_Mouth_and_I_Must_Scream):
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First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must
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Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967.
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This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the
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original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by
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Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous
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stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title
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story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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For a long time, I've only heard about "Have No Mouth", but never actually
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read it -- and, to be completely honest, didn't even know it was a story.
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And then I got a fiction humble bundle and there it was.
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I must say I'm impressed with Harlan writing style. It's easy to read, not too
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messy and straight -- a thing that reminds me of the way Asimov writes, which
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allowed me to read whole books in a couple of days.
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The stories are all over the place, though: One is scifi, another is
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hallucinogenic, another is modern fiction... So all tastes should be satiated
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in the end.
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