Austin Grossman (Author of Soon I Will Be Invincible)

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Born

in Concord, MA, The United States

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Member Since

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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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	Soon I Will Be Invincible 3.67 avg rating — 14,449 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 — 3,279 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 — 1,523 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Neal Stephenson (欧宝娱乐 Author), Sean Stewart (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.29 avg rating — 351 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 3.73 avg rating — 119 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Warren Spector (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 49 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 4.02 avg rating — 42 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
	賲匕賰乇丕鬲噩賵賳亘丕乇賰乇賴丕賲賵賳丿 by Austin Grossman (欧宝娱乐 Author), 賳丕丿乇兀爻丕賲丞 (欧宝娱乐 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
	By Austin Grossman You [Paperback] 3.67 avg rating — 3 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

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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
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Redshirts by John Scalzi
2012, 318 pages, average GR rating 3.82
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The Last Man by Mary Shelley
1826, 342 pages, AR 3.31
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Flesh & Wires by Jackie Hatton
2015, 282 pages, AR 4.25
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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
2007, 338 pages, AR 3.69
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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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