Hugo Award Winners for Best Short Story

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Flowers for Algernon, Speech Sounds, Inconstant Moon, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, A Study in Emerald, Soldier, Ask Not, Neutron Star, The Dragon Masters, Slow Sculpture, To Serve Man, The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, The Way of Cross and Dragon, Uncommon Sense, The Nine Billion Names of God, Cassandra, The Star, That Hell-Bound Train, Allamagoosa, Jeffty Is Five, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, No Truce with Kings, Kirinyaga, The Crystal Spheres, The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Travels with My Cats, Bears Discover Fire, The 43 Antarean Dynasties, The Very Pulse of the Machine, Tideline, The Lincoln Train, A Walk in the Sun, Even the Queen, Scherzo with Tyrannosaur, Tk'tk'tk, Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers, Grotto of the Dancing Deer, Impossible Dreams, Falling Onto Mars, Fermi and Frost, The Hole Man, None So Blind, Or All the Seas with Oysters, The Longest Voyage, Melancholy Elephants. Excerpt: Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17). The titular Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told as a series of progress reports written by Charlie, the first human test subject for the surgery, and touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. Although the book has often been challenged for removal from libraries in the US and Canada, sometimes successfully, it is regularly taught in schools around the world and has been adapted numerous times for television, theatre, radio and as the Academy Award-winning film Charly. The ideas for Flowers for Algernon developed over a period of 14 years and were inspired by numerous different events in Keyes's life, starting in 1945 with Keyes's personal conflict with his parents who were pushing him through a pre-medical education in spite of his own desire to pursue a writing career. Keyes felt that his education was driving a wedge between him and his parents and this led him to wonder what would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence. Another key moment came in 1957, while Keyes was teaching English to students with special needs; one student asked him if it would be possible to be put into a regular class if he worked hard and became smart. Different characters in the book were also based on events and people in Keyes's life. The character of Algernon was inspired by a university dissection class, while the name came from the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne which Keyes thought was an unusual name. Nemur and Strauss, the scientists