Have you read flowers for algernon?

1) why do you think it should be classified in the 'science fiction' or 'speculatove fiction' genre


2)does it have any subgenres?

Have you read flowers for algernon?
It is speculative fiction because it is speculating what would happen if they found a cure for mental retardation--though in the end, it fails. Pax-C
Reply:Good book!


Sci-Fi because it speculates about a cure for mental retardation.


Sub genre would be tragedy.