《我没有嘴,但必须呐喊》是20世纪60年代美国新浪潮大作家哈兰·埃里森的著名小说,发表于1967年,于1968年获雨果奖。小说描写了一个地狱般的未来世界。人类为战争而制造出的许多计算机,最后联合起来成为一台超级计算机艾姆(AM),它消灭了除五个人之外的所有人类。艾姆把这五个人看管起来,用各种办法捉弄和折磨他们。艾姆有着上帝般的力量,但它不是上帝,它可以让人永远活着,但不能创造生命。 “I do not have a mouth, but I have to cry” was a famous novel by Harlan Ellison, a new American writer in the 1960s. It was published in 1967 and was awarded Hugo in 1968. The novel portrays a hellish future world. Many of the computers that mankind made for war finally joined forces to become AM, a supercomputer that eradicated all human beings except five. Aim took care of these five people, using various means to trick and torture them. Aim has the power of God, but it is not God, it can make people live forever, but can not create life.