![]() ![]() ![]() Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science FictionĪldiss prefers the original short story rather than the novel because the "moving story lost something of its power when expanded to novel length." Scholes believes Keyes "has fleshed out his idea with great skill" as well. ![]() The novel is "beautifully problematic" and its power comes from the fact that the results of the surgery are only temporary. "An excerpt from Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future"įlowers for Algernon is "minimal SF that, unlike some works of science fiction, establishes only one discontinuity between its world and our own." This discontinuity is the experiment that raises Charlie's intelligence. ![]() Keyes "has taken the obvious, treated it in a most obvious fashion, and succeeded in creating a tale that is convincing, suspenseful, and touching-all in modest degree, but it is enough." In all, the novel is "proof of Mr. Comparison of the Novel and the Short Storyįlowers for Algernon "deals with moral, social, psychological, theological, or philosophical problems imagined as resulting from inventions, discoveries, or scientific hypotheses." It is a "work of quality science fiction" that "offers compassionate insight into the situation of the mentally retarded," but also is "marred by a cliche dialogue or a too predictable description." ![]()
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