Really great short story though, recommend that if haven’t already read it.
Posting here for convenience. It’s a super short read. https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I-Have-No-Mouth-But-I-Must-Scream-by-Harlan-Ellison.pdf
Harlan Ellison’s other work is also well worth the read, like Born in Blood. It’s very expensive to buy and there’s no Ebook so I recommend getting it from the library.
Harlan Ellison also helped turn his story into a pretty cool game.
https://archive.org/details/ihnmaims
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream_(video_game)
If I remember right, that game is pretty hard. I think you can make choices that will later turn out to stop you from completing it, but you won’t know until a few more hours in
Not all that uncommon for the genre and the time. Fitting too, given the story, wouldn’t you say?
Oh yes absolutely, it’s not a criticism at all. More just me kicking some dusty neurons and coming up with something resembling a memory 😅