Daniel keyes author interview mo

   

 

There's been a lot of mention on the science fiction forums recently of Daniel Keyes, the non-very-prolific author of “Flowers for Algernon,” one of his rare science fiction appearances, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

This story was made into a film.  What else does he write or do?  This interview was done some time back and answers these questions.

 

    Daniel Keyes: My interest in science fiction has always been from the perspective of the individual character.  I am interested in the human mind as it reacts to a complex and industrialized society.  My chief interest is in neurosis and psychosis and the multiple personality, as it is used as a defense mechanism.  Child abuse is particularly prominent in the woes of an industrialized civilization and in this syndrome: the child reacts to the abuse of complex society with multiple personalities.