Agency
by William Gibson | 
Omnitopia Dawn
by Diane Duane | 
Shivering World
by Kathy Tyers | 
Europe in Autumn
by Dave Hutchinson | 
Peace on Earth
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer | 
Raising Caine
by Charles E. Gannon | 
Kirinya
by Ian McDonald | 
Grey
by Jon Armstrong | 
Survivor
by Octavia E. Butler | 
Quatermass
by Nigel Kneale | 
The Poison Belt
by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Infomocracy
by Malka Older | 
God's Fires
by Patricia Anthony | 
Hello America
by J. G. Ballard | 
Tomorrow!
by Philip Wylie | 
The Disappearance
by Philip Wylie | 
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twiss | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini |
First published in 1930, Gladiator is the tale of Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with himself. The character of Danner inspired both Superman's creators, and Lester Dent's Doc Savage. But Wylie, an editor with the New Yorker, sought to develop more than a pulp hero. His Gladiator provides surprising insights into the difficulties suffered by the truly gifted when born in our midst.