"Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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Superfanboy
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"Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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I just finished this book. It's an exploration of the internal life of supers in a Standard Superhero Universe. The main protagonists are a Leader/Luthor type of villain with mild super physique + genius level intelligence, and a woman with lost memories who has become a cyborg and joined a super team. The Superman Expy Corefire has gone missing, and the heroes are on a tear.

I won't spoil any of the plot, but it's fairly good. It might make for a few good writeups, though there aren't a lot of feats the characters are deliberately similar to existing ones so you can fill in the blanks easily enough. It's a good book/audio book which stays fairly true to the super worlds but has a more psychological slant.
FuzzyBoots
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Re: "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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I too enjoyed that book. I liked that they made Doctor Impossible sound intelligent, and with reasonable complaints about the system, while also indicating his flaws and that he's not necessarily right.
Superfanboy
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Re: "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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FuzzyBoots wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:11 am I too enjoyed that book. I liked that they made Doctor Impossible sound intelligent, and with reasonable complaints about the system, while also indicating his flaws and that he's not necessarily right.
He's basically right about everyone, but antisocial himself. It also makes Corefire kind of an asshole, without making him a lunatic.
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Re: "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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I also enjoyed this back in the day when it was first released. It treated the genre respectfully, but explored some of the conventions of superheroes well.

All my best.
Libra X
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Re: "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman

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For some reason I would dearly love to see the characters from this novel depicted in the art style of the INVINCIBLE comic book (Perhaps because that ‘House Style’ is so distinct from Mr Bryan Hitch, who provided illustrations for the novel, and also due to the shared name elements).

Also, I would absolutely love to see more in this vein from Mr Grossman, whether or not it takes place in the same ‘verse.
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