Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks by Daniel Keyes #foliosociety For the sake of her

For the sake of her brother

Neel was fiercely democratic in selecting her subjects

Her friends wonder why she won't get married

Why is scarring on a greengage a good sign

during the Battle of Britain

Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks by Daniel Keyes #foliosociety For the sake of herCharlie 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. 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. Winner of the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and subsequently expanded into a Hugo nominated