Although there may be parallels between Flowers for Algernon and
Awakenings, the story was actually made into a film years ago. Am I the
only person on this list old enough to remember the film Charly? I believe
Cliff Robertson played the lead.
Susan Courtney
At 09:24 06/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Geoffrey Sperl wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>> - Geoffrey
>>
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>I don't understand why you think _Flowers for Algeernon_ is a _fringe_ sf
>piece. The discussion of intelligence and the possibilities of
>super-intelligence has long been one that is central to science fiction.
>Admittedly Keyes did the story in a way that is more approachable to those
>not used to genre sf (such people might have had problems with Poul
>Anderson's marvellous _Brain Wave_, for instance, which is an earlier
>approach than Keyes). But it was published within the sf genre, received
>the accolades of the sf community, and is in every respect core sf. Why
>fringe? :-)
>
>Edward James
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>Editor, FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
>Director of Studies, MA in Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media
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