“I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding …

AM provided punk and we burned it, sitting huddled around the wan and pathetic fire, telling stories to keep Benny from crying in his permanent night. "What does AM mean?" Gorrister …

The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the merging of the world's major defense computers, eradicates humanity …

“I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding …

These are the only words that the reader experiences AM speaking in the entirety of the story. They are not so much spoken as imprinted on Ted’s mind. They illustrate the single-minded …

AM: [to Gorrister] I would not want you to think for a moment that I am not a grateful god. For 109 years I have kept you alive so that I could savor your feelings of guilt over what happened to …

AM is the antagonist of the story, an artificial intelligence that endlessly tortures the human characters. AM is motivated by hatred for the humans who allowed it to gain sentience without …

AM: Gorrister! Do you remember the last words you heard your wife speak before they took her to the asylum? Huh? Before they locked her away in the room? That tiny room? She looked at …

AM by Harlan Ellison: A supercomputer that hates. (Text quote, book citation included.)

This one took a lot of work, but I needed to properly feed my latest hyperfixation on a certain human-hating AI. So, enjoy these 18 minutes of AM's wonderful...