Soon I Will be Invincible

The Incredibles meets The West Wing. It's Geek heaven!

The Incredibles meets The West Wing meets Marvel: Agents of Shield - the list goes on! 
 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. 
 About the author: 
 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.

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.

Doctor Impossible &mdash; evil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveller, wannabe world dominator &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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.

Austin Grossman

A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes

Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity Archives

Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am

Conn Iggulden, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lion

The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama

James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad

A treasure that manages to be sad, funny, and hilariously fun at all once. A thrilling adventure but also a searing, intimate look at what it would really cost to have such incredible power, and yet still be human

Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers

Fight Me embraces the fun of the genre, while treating its battle-weary characters with heart and empathy. A noir-tinged Big Chill for the superhero set

Grossman's novel of wealth, power, fraught loves and friendships flexes epic muscles beneath its superhero costume

D.B. Weiss, co-creator of Game of Thrones

A sucker-punch of sheer delight, and I couldn’t be happier to be on the receiving end

Adam Christopher, New York Times bestselling Author of Seven Wonders

There is a vibrancy to the writing, and a beating heart, reminiscent of my favourite coming-of-age novels

Combining a coming-of-age story with costume thrills … it has sly, smart things to say

A superhero story unlike any I’ve read before … this is definitely worth checking out

For all the kapows and wisecracks, it is a strangely sweet and sentimental novel

Blending the lurid, anything-goes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences … where every argument or falling-out can potentially happen on a cosmic scale . . . but a melancholy tone gives its quieter moments a surprising impact

Truly exceptional … Fight Me is a wonderful, action-packed superhero sci-fi adventure . . . Funny, fierce and engaging, it’s an amazing journey through a strange world of very real humans (who are also superhuman)

A gripping, often funny tale with an unusual twist . . . I would dearly love to see this adapted to the graphic novel form, but I highly recommend this in the meantime . . . It’s terrific

Austin Grossman

Praise for Fight Me

A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes

Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am

The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama

A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes

Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am

The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama

A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes

Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am

The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama

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