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Work InformationSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
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No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() An entertaining novel about superheroes and supervillains. Not especially profound, but the author clearly has a love for silver age superhero stuff (and a respect for and understanding of the genre that The Incredibles did not). It's reasonably effective at getting into the heads of the two narrating characters (a young hero and an experienced villain). The most fun bits involve the glimpses into the histories of the other characters, their full stories being held tantalizingly out of reach (something that today's superhero comics cannot resist diving into ad nauseous). As a serious examination or deconstruction of the genre (which I always feel mainstream fiction about superheroes is striving to be), it feels simplistic compared to, say, almost anything Alan Moore has written, but on its own terms it's entirely entertaining. A good comic book pastiche whose high points are the attempts to make the mad scientist supervillain psychologically plausible. The other half of the narration, by an upcoming superhero, doesn't work as well, and there are occasional overexplanations, but in general the book succeeds at what it's trying to do. no reviews | add a review
A wildly entertaining first novel about good and evil, narrated by a cape-wearing superhero and a nefarious supervillain. Doctor Impossibleevil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveler, wannabe world dominatorhas just broken out of prisonagain. He's tried to take over the world in every conceivable way: doomsday devices (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological), armies (robot, insect, dinosaur, fungus, fish), mass mind control, even a corporate conquest (Impossible Industries LLC). Each time, he has been foiled. This time, it's going to be different. Fatale, a gleaming technological marvel built by the NSA as the next generation of warfare, is living in Boston, watching TV and listening to the police scanner. A woman of skin and chrome with a long silver ponytail, she's given the chance every superheroine dreams of: to join a once-famous group of beautiful young heroes, newly reunited to stop Dr. Impossible. In alternating chapters, we see Dr. Impossible plan his comeback, and we watch the good guysFatale, Damsel, Blackwolf, Feral, CoreFirecome together in the face of unspeakable evil. Featuring a cast of superheroes and supervillains with remarkably human emotions who inhabit a world strangely similar to our own, this is an outrageous adventure with a literary benta smart take on power and celebrity, glory and responsibility, and those old standbys, truth and justice. No library descriptions found. |
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