Soon I Will Be Invincible - by Austin Grossman (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Every comic-book cliché in this witty, stunning debut is lovingly embraced, then turned inside out." --Wired Magazine

"Imaginative and, at times, achingly real. . . . I mean it as the highest possible compliment when I say that it would make a damn good comic book." --Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times Book Review

"A page-turning confrontation that's pure super-team suspense." --The Onion

"This witty debut novel is sure to please fans of Lethem and Chabon and remind you that smart prose can be as vivid as any graphic concoction." --Playboy

"It's a hoot. . . . A delirious, often hilarious story that both satirizes and pays homage to superhero story cliches." --Tampa Tribune

"Soon I Will Be Invincible doesn't so much play with the clichés of superhero comics as bathe in their pulpy froth."--Austin American Statesman

About the Author

Austin Grossman is a video-game design consultant and a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he specializes in Romantic and Victorian literature. He lives in Berkeley.