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Philip Wylie: Gladiator. (Hardcover, 1974, Hyperion Press)

Hardcover, 332 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1974 by Hyperion Press.

ISBN:
978-0-88355-124-0
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OCLC Number:
763560

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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.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
  • Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • Muscle strength -- Fiction
  • Loneliness -- Fiction