RFI: Novels about superheroes

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No, not novelizations of movies and comic book arcs. I once had a short list of super-person novels, but I lost it. I'm thinking "Unbreakable" here. Anyone know anything?

― Rufus King, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Superfolks, which I only barely remember and can't recall the author of, was long out of print the last time I looked for it.

There's the Wild Cards series edited by George R.R. Martin.

John Varley had an anthology out at some point, I think.

There's a short story by, well, me, which will be appearing somewhere, I just don't know where yet.

There's bound to be more, but the list I would've kept was two computers ago.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I'm not kidding!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of Roger Zelazny's novels are essentially about superheroes, albeit without all the tropes of the genre.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Temps is an intermittently excellent collection of short stories about rubbish british superheroes

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Gladiator, by Philip Wylie.

Wasn't there a Eurotemps as well?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Superman III novelisation is by William Kotzwinkle => it is worth reading (not as great as his ET novelisation and its sequel, though). Better is the superb Last Son Of Krypton by Elliott S. Maggin.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Kav&Clay count?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No - it's a novel about comic book creators who produce comics about superheroes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks to all. I will seek these out. Re: Kav - not exactly what I had in mind, but in the end, likely as appealing to anyone interested in this stuff anyway.

― Rufus King, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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