![]() ![]() The damsel in distress, however, gets seduced by the monster which utterly disgusts him. “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” features a man who is tasked with slaying a monster as an afterlife test. In the introduction, Ellison tells us this story is pretty much autobiographical, which doesn’t come as a big surprise. In “Lonelyache”, a recently divorced man dreams of murdering people and treats a series of women badly. The ant-like creatures who share a hive mind were interesting, however, the narrator blames a rape victim for being raped and lets us know how horrible he thinks she is. Two men and a woman crash land on a planet in “World of the Myth”. An ugly person named Person is put to death for being ugly. “Eyes of Dust” takes place in a world where ugliness is not tolerated. Big Sam saves a woman from being offered up as a virgin sacrifice and she thanks him by condemning him to death because woman are awful. “Big Sam was My Friend” is about circus performers with psychic powers performing on an alien world. ![]() The woman has sex with all the men even though they beat her and ignore her cries. ![]() ![]() Basically, four men and one woman are being tortured by an artificial intelligence the whole time. “I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream” doesn’t have much of a plot. Harlan Ellison is considered one of science fiction’s grand masters and I’ve heard praise for the title story in this collection, so I decided to give it a try. ![]()
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