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Would you choose to be supersmart? This podcast episode is all about the seminal Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. If you are of a certain age you undoubtedly had it as required reading. The two sisters cast their minds back and struggle to remember when they actually read the book but are fairly certain they had previously read it in some form or other. The book tied with Babel-17 by Delany for the 1967 Nebula. Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part? Here are the time markers for this episode: 01:45 History Lesson 04:15 Okay, did we or didn’t we? 06:14 General Discussion, starting off with the usual - what’s the big theme 10:06 Would you choose to be supersmart? 15:33 We continue our ongoing discussion of the presentation of women characters in Science Fiction in the late 20th century. (We do cover other characters too, to be fair) 23:00 Algernon the foreshadowing mouse 30:07 More character discussion, just to make sure we cover everyone. We’ll get there. 40:55 Four Questions and what did you love about reading this book? Music by Carl Miles