Flowers for Algernon (novelette), by Keyes, Daniel

Flowers for Algernon, 1959, by Daniel Keyes, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: When people say that SF is a gloomy body of literature, I think that they have stories like this week's in mind. Flowers for Algernon is not a tale of the failure of science to make people's lives better. The operation that was performed in this story was expected to fail, so what it really is about is how science and scientists treat other humans like lab rats, and the[…]

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