Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Paperback Book

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Author: Austin Grossman

Narrator: J. Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback

Publisher: Workman Pub Co

Published: Jun 2007

Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - Adventure

Retail Price: $36.95

Discs: 8

Synopsis

A wildly entertaining first novel about good and evil, narrated by a cape-wearing superhero and a nefarious supervillain.

Doctor Impossible—evil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveler, wannabe world dominator—has just broken out of prison…again. 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 guys—Fatale, Damsel, Blackwolf, Feral, CoreFire—come 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 bent—a smart take on power and celebrity, glory and responsibility, and those old standbys, truth and justice.

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BookLender review by Alexander on 2009-04-03 10:57:24

Narrator does a great job, and the dialog is fun. I would have given this four stars if it weren't for the periodic whining. Overall and enjoyable, different look at the life of super heros and super villians.