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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, book cover
Novel · 1966 · 238 pages

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes won the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It was also a finalist or poll selection for the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

HugoFinalist1967
NebulaWinner1967
LocusNo recognition listed
ClarkeNo recognition listed

Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight.

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