Harlan Ellison
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Oct 31, 2026
Robert LambHOST
I decided to go right for it, and I picked up a story that had been on my list of things that I felt like I should probably have read for many years.
Robert LambHOST
My selection is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, a horrifying sci-fi short story about the dangers of artificial intelligence from way back in 1967.
Joe McCormickHOST
Kind of hard to imagine that writers in the 1960s were already personifying computers this much.
Joe McCormickHOST
Feels like second nature now, but the computers of the time, there was a lot more imagination involved to get across the gap in time and technology from what they had then to the Terminator or the AM from I Have No Mouth than it is to get from what we have today to the same.
Robert LambHOST
Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting to think about this, in part because, to be clear, Harlan Ellison did not invent this.
Robert LambHOST
You know, he's coming along already in an established tradition and putting his own spin on things.
Robert LambHOST
But yeah, it is just crazy to think about, okay, what else was going on in the year 1967? Well, this was the year of the Summer of Love, so actual hippies and flower children were There's a good chance some of them read this story along with a little novel called Dune that came out a few years prior and at that point had no sequel yet.
Joe McCormickHOST
Yeah, asking Val Kilmer if he likes thinking about bats.
Hugh McStayHOST
What makes this run special was the staggering creative talent behind and in front of the camera.
Hugh McStayHOST
The writing staff and guest contributors featured titans of science fiction and horror, including Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Arthur C. Clarke, and the young George R.R. Martin.
Hugh McStayHOST
Directorial duties were handed to visionary filmmakers like Wes Craven, William Friedkin and Joe Dante.
Hugh McStayHOST
The episode starred early career talent alongside acting legends, featuring memorable appearances by Bruce Willis in the famous premiere segment Shatterday, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Danny Kaye.
Sam BrownHOST
Although the first half of the book is mostly about his career, he does do a bit of foreshadowing here and there in terms of like where we know he ends up.
Sam BrownHOST
For example, he talks early on about reading an essay by Harlan Ellison, who's a famous science fiction writer.
Sam BrownHOST
And he said that the message of one of these essays was, quote, when a woman cries for help, you help, end quote.
Sam BrownHOST
Similar to the quote I asked you to read out, Natalia.
Michael Stokes PaulsonGUEST
I'm not sure
Steve HaywardHOST
what came first, because the person who wrote the original script for that episode was Harlan Ellison, a famous writer who was angry and quit because they monkeyed with his script.
Steve HaywardHOST
It was Dean Roddenberry again screwing it up.
Steve HaywardHOST
Ellison thought.
Michael NixonHOST
I wonder what it's about.
Michael NixonHOST
Harlan Ellison having a totally normal one in the movie theater this weekend.
Michael NixonHOST
Yeah.
Michael NixonHOST
Absolutely.
Drew HamiltonHOST
as he said to me directly, as he said to me in his bed directly, I never lost a lawsuit.
Drew HamiltonHOST
So, you know.
Michael NixonHOST
This is why I bring up Harlan Ellison, because Drew moved his couch once, which is just the coolest shit I've ever fucking heard.
Drew HamiltonHOST
And it's like the thing is, is when you think of what Harlan Ellison's house looks like, it is weirder than you can imagine.
Chris FranklinHOST
Had art by Neil Adams and Dick Giordano.
Chris FranklinHOST
Story by Denny O'Neill from an idea by Bernie Wrightson with an assist from Harlan Ellison.
Chris FranklinHOST
And it was edited by Julius Schwartz.
Chris FranklinHOST
Our story begins on a late October night on the outskirts of Rutland, Vermont.
Chris FranklinHOST
Up in the night, they went out to the woods and discussed things, and I'm sure they did not imbibe any illegal substances.
Chris FranklinHOST
But Denny says Bernie mentioned, what if one of those weirdos at the party was really a maniac killer who hated comic creators? That got Denny thinking of a story.
Chris FranklinHOST
Then separately, Harlan Ellison suggested Denny should pen a Batman story about a Nazi war criminal.
Chris FranklinHOST
So Denny combined the two, as you do.
Chris FranklinHOST
Had art by Neil Adams and Dick Giordano.
Chris FranklinHOST
Story by Denny O'Neill from an idea by Bernie Wrightson with an assist from Harlan Ellison.
Chris FranklinHOST
And it was edited by Julius Schwartz.
Chris FranklinHOST
Our story begins on a late October night on the outskirts of Rutland, Vermont.
Chris FranklinHOST
Up in the night, they went out to the woods and discussed things, and I'm sure they did not imbibe any illegal substances.
Chris FranklinHOST
But Denny says Bernie mentioned, what if one of those weirdos at the party was really a maniac killer who hated comic creators? That got Denny thinking of a story.
Chris FranklinHOST
Then separately, Harlan Ellison suggested Denny should pen a Batman story about a Nazi war criminal.
Chris FranklinHOST
So Denny combined the two, as you do.
KyleGUEST
I was a bald little baby dressed as Patrick Stewart.
KyleGUEST
When I met Harlan Ellison...
KyleGUEST
the famous science fiction writer, who then told my mother that she was ridiculous for dressing up a baby and taking it to Comic-Con.
KyleGUEST
But I feel like he would have appreciated that, especially because apparently my mom met him at some point.
Mike AlvarezGUEST
Right.
PatrickHOST
Um, the title of the second segment, I have no tablet, but my, but I must stream as a parody of Harlan Ellison's famous science fiction story.
PatrickHOST
I have no mouth
BryanHOST
and I must scream.
William BibbianiGUEST
And this is especially true, I think, for The Amazing Digital Circus.
William BibbianiGUEST
It's an animated series that is mostly inspired by Harlan Ellison's classic short story, I Have No Voice Yet, I Must Scream, in which a group of people have found themselves downloaded into a computer.
William BibbianiGUEST
And they don't know how to get out.
William BibbianiGUEST
And all they know is there is an artificial intelligence that is desperate to keep them entertained.
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