Recommended - Nebula Winner



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Keyes, Daniel
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
book-date: 1966
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Harcourt Brace & World
1966
1st
Hardcover
Design: Carl Smith
$4.95
Book= VG+ to near-Fine
Dustjacket= near-Fine

I was surprised at how much nice copies of this were going for online - look it up on abebooks.com to see for yourself. Specify hardcover (Harcourt) first editions with dustjackets, then discard reprints and ex-library. I've priced this well below the cheapest of comparable copies - and they go MUCH higher.

This novel is an expasion of "Flowers for Algernon" from Magazine of F&SF in 1959 (which won the Hugo award for "best short story.") This version won the Nebula for best novel in 1966, and was a Hugo nominee for "best novel" in 1967.

Charlie Gordon is a moron, with an I.Q. of 68. His intelligence is artificially increased to genius level - and he tells his own story, increasing in articulation and complexity as he grows smarter. The tragedy lies in the fact that the mouse, Algernon, preceding him in the course of treatments - dies. The genius-level Charly is left to figure out why, and the implications for his own future.














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