lg: whoops, guess my comments went out in two parts... sorry!
Susan Courtney wrote:
>
> 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
> >>
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >...........................................................................
> ...
> >
> >Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
> >Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, READING RG6 6AA, UK
> >
> >http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/home.htm
> >
> >Editor, FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
> >Director of Studies, MA in Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media
> >
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> >
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