I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

9 best books like I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison): There Will Come Soft Rains, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, The Cats of Ulthar, The Star, Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, The Last Castle, Driftglass, They're Made Out of Meat, The Last Answer

There Will Come Soft Rains
AuthorRay Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s most poignant short stories, this also has one his most recognized scenes.

Quietly, somberly describing a smart house after a nuclear holocaust, Bradbury uses this Cold War theme as a vehicle to explore our technological advances and how those same advances can lead...
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
AuthorJunji Ito
This is not a book but a loose chapter of Gyo: Volume 2.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault (Amigara means "Empty Shell") is a short story originally published along with the second volume of Junji Ito's Gyo, but has nothing to do with the story.

People are being unnaturally drawn into a mountainside...
The Cats of Ulthar
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft

This early Dunsanian tale, first published in the amateur literary journal Tryout (1920), resembles the work of Dunsany more deeply than mere style: although distant and ironic, it somehow manages to convey the spirit of naïve folklore. Like many of our ancient myths, it answers a question:...
The Star
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
Dear Arthur,

I appreciated your short story "The Star", but I think you will be interested to hear My side of the case. I have done My very best to create a beautiful universe where intelligent beings may evolve, flourish, and learn to become closer to Me. You would simply not believe how many aeons...
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0515114715
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales.

The voice of the damned : The last feast of Harlequin --
The spectacles in the drawer --
flowers of the abyss --
Nethescurial --
The voice of the demon : The dreaming in Nortown --
The mystics...
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0425084787
WITH VANCE PEST CONTROL, PESTS DON'T STAND A CHANCE!

In addition to bugging you, the pests known as Humans pose serious risks to your health and property – all year long. Humans carry various diseases, so it’s important to keep them in their place. No matter what season it is, they will sneak...
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0451144244
Why?From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies... so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.Far beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining...
They're Made Out of Meat
AuthorTerry Bisson
"We're supposed to talk to meat."



After reading The Egg by Andy Weir, GR had some nice recommendations for me. So, I came upon They're Made Out of Meat.

This is a very short story (only 5 pages long) that was a Nebula Award Nominee for Best Short Story in 1991. You can read it here....
The Last Answer
AuthorIsaac Asimov
The Last Answer, Isaac Asimov
"The Last Answer" is a science-fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1980 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and reprinted in the collections The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983), The Best Science...
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