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Austin Grossman

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in Concord, MA, The United States

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Austin Grossman graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a plan to write the great American novel; instead he became a video game designer at Looking Glass Studios.

He has since contributed as a writer and designer to a number of critically acclaimed video games, such as ULTIMA UNDERWORLD II, SYSTEM SHOCK, DEUS EX, and TOMB RAIDER: LEGEND, and has taught and lectured on narrative in video games. He is currently a freelance game design consultant,

He is also a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he specializes in Romantic and Victorian literature.

SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE is his debut novel. (from the author's website)" ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 22,344 ratings · 3,391 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Soon I Will Be Invincible 3.67 avg rating — 14,548 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You 3.21 avg rating — 3,291 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crooked 3.38 avg rating — 1,540 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Found Land: The Long Haul by Austin Grossman (Goodreads Author), Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author), Sean Stewart (Goodreads Author) 3.29 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight Me 3.69 avg rating — 151 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Professor Incognito Apologizes 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Epic Mickey by Austin Grossman (Goodreads Author), Warren Spector (Foreword) 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مذكرات جون باركر هاموند by Austin Grossman (Goodreads Author), نادر أسامة (Goodreads Author) (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight Me 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

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“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

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“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”
― Austin Grossman

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An Uncommon Blue by R.C. Hancock
2014, 288 pages, AR 4.34
$6.49 Kindle, used paper $9.49 and up

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Redshirts by John Scalzi
2012, 318 pages, average GR rating 3.82
Kindle $9.99 , cheap used print

7 votes 26.9%

The Last Man by Mary Shelley
1826, 342 pages, AR 3.31
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4 votes 15.4%

Flesh & Wires by Jackie Hatton
2015, 282 pages, AR 4.25
$7.95 Kindle, used paper &11.01 and up

3 votes 11.5%

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
2007, 338 pages, AR 3.69
Kindle $11.99, cheap used print

3 votes 11.5%

Apocalypse the Memoir by C.S. Oliver
2015, 309 pages, AR 4.57
Kindle $2.99, $12.59 and up in print

2 votes 7.7%

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message 2: by Vin

Oct 15, 2010 11:17AM

How's the movie coming along?

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message 1: by Sandi

Feb 21, 2009 08:29AM

Soon I Will Be Invincible was an incredibly fun read. My daughter lent me her copy of the "Doctor Horrible's Sing-along Blog" DVD and I kept thinking, "This is so much like 'Soon I Will Be Invincible". I suspect Joss Whedon was very much influenced by your book.