Gladiator

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

Times: early 20th century