On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Geoffrey Sperl wrote:
> Laur, Erin M. wrote:
>
> > Is Flowers for Algernon really considered Science Fiction? I haven't
> > read it in a real long time, but I don't remember classifying it that
> > way. Isn't that the novel similar in plot and theme to the movie
> > Awakenings?
>
> I can see connections between _Awakenings_ and _Algernon_, but I still would have
> to place _Algernon_ in SF...it's a fringe piece, yes, but definitely SF...of
> course, Oliver Sachs would probably say that the events in _Awakenings_ were
> almost science fiction...
>
"Flowers for Algernon" was first published in the Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction as a shorter work. Is that genre enough?
Patricia (Pat) Mathews
mathews@unm.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu May 25 2000 - 19:06:59 PDT