✍ Scribed by Daniel Keyes
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Charlie Gordon es un chico con discapacidad mental, una buena persona que siente respeto por quienes le rodean. Charlie es escogido para una operación quirúrgica experimental, a la que también es sometido el ratón Algernon. A partir de entonces su inteligencia se irá ampliando, su visión del mundo se irá convirtiendo en algo más real y más decepcionante…, hasta llegar a la cúspide, donde se encuentra solo y adquiere la certeza de su terrible futuro. Este relato le proporcionó al autor varios premios Hugo y Nebula. Fue llevado a la televisión y posteriormente al cine, con el título «Charly».
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SUMMARY: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his
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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. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the
### Amazon.com Review Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, *Flowers for Algernon*. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation *Charly* (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical. Following