Title: Gladiator
First published: 1930
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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
Time periods: early 20th century