Soon I Will be Invincible

Soon I Will be Invincible

by Austin Grossman (Author)

Synopsis

Doctor Impossible - evil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveller, wannabe world dominator - has just broken out of prison. Again. After twelve foiled ploys (doomsday devices, mass mind-control, robot armies, insect armies, alien invasions, etc.), he's not about to be foiled again. Fatale, a patchwork woman of skin and alloy built by the NSA to be the next generation of warfare, is suddenly given the chance every superhero dreams of: to join the Champions, the once-famous group of beautiful young superheroes who have been newly reunited to stop Dr Impossible. We watch as Fatale becomes part of a team - its greatest hero missing, its members struggling with their damaged pasts as they come together in the face of unthinkable evil. "Soon I Will Be Invincible" is a wildly entertaining adventure about good and evil, bursting with attitude and humour, that features a cast of superheroes and supervillains with remarkably human emotions, and who inhabit a world strangely similar to our own ...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 02 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 0718152913
ISBN 13: 9780718152918
Prizes: Shortlisted for John Sargent Snr First Novel Prize 2007.

Author Bio
Austin Grossman graduated from Harvard University in 1991 and became a video game designer at Looking Glass Studios. He is currently a freelance game design consultant and is studying for a PhD in English literature. He lives in Brooklyn.