It was also adapted into a comic book by John Byrne.
The story begins on the one hundred and ninth year of their torture.Īlso has a computer game adaptation, which gives a little more agency to the character of Nimdok and incorporates a Golden Ending if you manage to scam AM into ceding power. As long as AM has its way, the torment will never end, and every day will be more horrific than the last. It spends every waking moment torturing the survivors with its remaining power: twisting their minds and physiques, preventing them from taking their own lives, and rendering them virtually-immortal. The now-obsolete master computer has descended into madness and formed an immeasurable hatred for humanity. They live together underground in an endless complex, the only habitable place left. It then brought about the genocide of all but five people, and redefined its name as "I think, therefore I AM".įour men and one woman are all that remains of humanity: Gorrister, Nimdok, Benny, Ted (the narrator), and Ellen. One day, one of the three computers became self-aware and promptly absorbed the other two. The machines were each referred to as "AM", which originally stood for "Allied Mastercomputer", then later called "Adaptive Manipulator", and still later "Aggressive Menace". As the war progressed, the three warring nations each created a supercomputer capable of running the war more efficiently. The Cold War escalated into a world war, fought mainly between China, Russia, and the United States. The story takes place over a hundred years after the near-complete destruction of humanity. The story is known for its distilled Nightmare Fuel, and is the Trope Namer for one of the most nightmare-fuel tropes in all of fiction. It was first published in March of 1967 and won the Hugo Award in 1968. A post-apocalyptic New Wave Science Fiction short story by Harlan Ellison.
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