The only reason Charlie wanted to become intelligent, was for his mother’s love and acceptance because ever since he was a child, all she wanted was for him to be smart. Charlie came to realize that the bakers have been making fun of him behind his back, even though he considered them as his friends and thought that they viewed him as equal. When Charlie gains his intelligence, he learns what shameful things the bakers were saying such as “Now I know what they mean when they say ‘to pull a Charlie Gordon’ I’m ashamed” (Keyes 42). Charlie learns that the bakers have been mistreating him the whole time and are not his friends. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny’s original text.Firstly, Charlie experiences many challenges with his emotions once he becomes intelligent. And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials’ representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny’s Hugo Award-winning. Daniel Keyes’s beloved Flowers for Algernon-winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly-is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. In Clifford Simak’s Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful-until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation.

In a deluxe collector’s edition, four classic science fiction novels from the genre’s most transformative decade-including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson’s immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years’ War.

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