Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
Author Biography
SALES POINTS* #25 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written* Winner of the HUGO and NEBULA awards.* 'A narrative tour de force, very moving, beautiful and remorseless in its simple logic' Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels* Basis for the Oscar winning film Charly
