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This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it was too complicated for humans to manage, so the three major superpowers each developed a computer program to help run the war. When one of the programs becomes sentient it eliminates all of the human race except five persons, which it tortures for eternity.
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Bleak, grave, overwhelming and earnest.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Harlan Ellison
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Audio Literature, Ace Books, Pyramid Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441363940
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Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family. His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father. As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs. He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability. He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer. Over the next two years, he published more than 100 short stories and articles. In 1957, he joined a street gang in Brooklyn as research for his novel Web of the City/Rumble and short story collection The Deadly Street
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