This is the fifteenth in a series of reviews of those science fiction and fantasy pieces of writing that have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. I had some reservations about including "Flowers for Algernon" in this series. It is an unusual case in that different versions of the story have won different awards; the original story, published in Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1959, won a 1960 Hugo, while the novel's length expansion jointly won a 1966 Nebula. So, to do it justice, I would have to review two versions of the story published separately in a single web page. However, it is quite clear to me that the story has to be the best known of the Hugo or Nebula winners, partly because it is on many middle school reading lists in the United States and Canada, but also because it is simply of exceptional quality. I also had to recognize that I had personal reasons for not wanting to write about “Flowers for Algernon,” which I will talk about at the end, and perhaps writing this article is a kind of helpful therapy. I assume you've also read "Flowers for Algernon" and I won't try to hide plot details below. If you haven't read it, you should go somewhere else now. Members of MagiCon, the 50th World Science Fiction Convention in 1992, were also asked to vote for the best of all previous Hugo winners in each of the established categories. In three of the four fiction categories the results were quite close; there was little distance in the novel category between The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Dune, and Stranger in a Strange Land; in the novel category, “The Big Front Yard” was just ahead of “The Bicentennial Man,” “Sandkings,” “Unicorn Variations” and “Blood Music”; and in the Short Story category, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" was a little more convincing ahead of "Neutron Star," "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Tic-Tac Man" and "The Star".