Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the delicate butt of everyone's jokes - until an try in the upgrade of human insights turns him into a genius.
But at that point Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal test change gone before his, blurs and kicks the bucket, and Charlie has to confront the plausibility that his salvation was as it were temporary.
Winner of the 1960 Hugo Grant for Best Brief Story, and in this way extended into a Hugo-nominated novel, Blossoms for Algernon earned Daniel Keyes the respect of SFWA Creator Emeritus in 2000 for his commitment to Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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