Flowers For Algernon

The Best of the SF Masterworks

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Beschreibung

<p>Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.<br><br> But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.<br><br><i>Winner of the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and subsequently expanded into a Hugo-nominated novel, </i>Flowers for Algernon<i> earned Daniel Keyes the honour of SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000 for his contribution to Science Fiction and Fantasy.</i><br><br>'Heartbreaking and beautiful. Required reading, as far as I am concerned' - Wil Wheaton<br>'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking, and utterly, completely brilliant' - <i>The Guardian</i><br>'Excellent . . . extremely moving' - <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i><br><br><b>Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399607766

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Orion Publishing Group