![]() Her face had been bloody, her eyes closed. The howling wind kept her aloft, buffeted her, bounced her, tossed her back and back and down and away from us, out of sight suddenly as she was swirled around a bend in the darkway. Ellen screamed as she was lifted and hurled face-forward into a screaming shoal of machines, their individual voices strident as bats in flight. Winds that tore at us, flinging us back the way we had come, down the twisting, computer-lined corridors of the darkway. The hurricane hit us with the force of a glacier thundering into the sea. ![]() But one day AM woke up and knew who he was, and he linked himself, and he began feeding all the killing data, until everyone was dead, except for the five of us, and AM brought us down here." There was the Chinese AM and the Russian AM and the Yankee AM and everything was fine until they had honeycombed the entire planet, adding on this element and that element. They sank the first shafts and began building AM. It became a big war, a very complex war, so they needed the computers to handle it. "The Cold War started and became World War Three and just kept going. Gorrister had not started at the beginning. Benny was beating on the floorplates with a large, hard fist. "There was the Chinese AM and the Russian AM and the Yankee AM and-" He stopped. "At first it meant Allied Mastercomputer, and then it meant Adaptive Manipulator, and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an Aggressive Menace, but by then it was too late, and finally it called itself AM, emerging intelligence, and what it meant was I am. We had done this sequence a thousand times before, but it was Benny's favorite story.
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