Flowers for Algernon
In the late 1960s, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) decided to give Nebula Awards retroactively and voted for their favourite science fiction stories of the era ending December 31, 1964 (before the Nebula Award was conceived). The short story version of "Flowers for Algernon" was voted third out of 132 nominees and was published in "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964" in 1970. Keyes was elected the SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000 for making a significant contribution to science fiction and fantasy, primarily as a result of "Flowers for Algernon".