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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

    1902-05-12 - 1971-10-25

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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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    The Book League of America

    1930

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    manor books

    1976

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2015

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    2017

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    2018

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2013

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2015

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    Lancer Books

    1965-01-01

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    2021

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    Wildside Press, LLC

    2009

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    2009

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    2022

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    Lightning Source Inc

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    2015

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    1949

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    1930

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    1951

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    1974

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    1958