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Gladiator

  • Philip Wylie

2.33

3 ratings

Scientist Abednego Danner discovers a serum which grants superpowers. He injects his pregnant wife with the serum and his son is born with powers like those of Superman (created a few years later). What follows is the story of Hugo's search for his place in the world.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Human experimentation in medicine
  • Muscle strength
  • Loneliness
  • Alienation (Social psychology)
  • Fathers and sons
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Individualism
  • American Science fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • Psychological fiction
  • Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
  • Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
  • Loneliness -- Fiction
  • Muscle strength -- Fiction
  • Fathers and sons, fiction
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About the author

  • Philip Wylie

    1902 - 1971

    2.00

    4 ratings · 60 works

Editions

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    Manor Books

    1976-01-01

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    Standard Ebooks

    2021

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    Dover Publications

    Sep 14, 2015

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    Hyperion Press

    June 1974

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    University of Nebraska Press

    2004

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2015

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    Lancer Books

    1965-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2018

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Wildside Press, LLC

    2009

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    Wildside Press, LLC

    2009

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Lightning Source Inc

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    Dover Publications, Incorporated

    2015

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    Avon

    1949

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    Knopf

    1930

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    Shakespeare House

    1951

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    Hyperion Press

    1974

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    Lancer Books

    1958