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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
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Soon I Will Be Invincible

by Austin Grossman

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Perhaps I would have enjoyed it better if I was a comic-book fan... but it just seemed silly; I like my fiction to be rooted in something believable. ( )
  SmartBugger | May 11, 2013 |
A book that looks at the problems superheroes would have to deal with off the pages of the comic book. Very interesting. ( )
  castiron | May 10, 2013 |
Grossman does a pretty good job of reversing a trend, writing a novel whose plot and characters to have been adapted from superhero comics. It's interesting to read his take on the super villain, superhero thing, but he more or less stays within the limits of the comic book, or graphic novel. My much earlier reading of the Wild Cards paperback series also left me comparing what Grossman does here with what some innovative writers did with the Wild Cards universe some years back. ( )
  nmele | Apr 6, 2013 |
I often say that contemporary realist fiction is all very well, but WHERE ARE THE KILLER ROBOTS?
Well, here they are. The book is about the true lives of superheroes and supervillains, but it's done in a very realistic and literary style.
The result--it's sometimes funny and sometimes actually quite touching.
Also, the cover art is awesome. ( )
  JenneB | Apr 2, 2013 |
It's just not grabbing me. :/
  GinnyTea | Mar 31, 2013 |
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Boehmer, J. PaulNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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To my parents, Allen and Judith Grossman
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This morning on planet Earth, there are one thousand, six hundred, and eighty-six enhanced, gifted, or otherwise-superpowered persons.
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Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he's lost every battle he's ever fought. But this prison won't hold him forever.

Fatale—half woman, half high-tech warrior—used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she's a rookie member of the world's most famous super-team, the Champions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in peril—she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone.

Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humor—an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.

(retrieved from Amazon Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:13:40 -0500)

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"Doctor Impossible - evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator - languishes in a federal detention facility. He's lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress." "Over the years he's tried to take over the world in every way imaginable: doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind-control. He's traveled backward in time to change history, forward in time to escape it. He's commanded robot armies, insect armies, and dinosaur armies. Fungus army. Army of fish. Of rodents. Alien invasions. All failures. But not this time. This time it's going to be different." "Fatale is a rookie superhero on her first day with the Champions, the world's most famous superteam. She's a patchwork woman of skin and chrome, a gleaming technological marvel built to be the next generation of warfare. Filling the void left by a slain former member, Fatale joins a team struggling with a damaged past, having to come together in the face of unthinkable evil."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

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