Sci-Fi Author Profile
Austin Grossman
Austin Grossman is a writer and game designer. He started his career in the game industry leading him to Looking Glass Studios. Since then, Grossman has worked with the following companies: Dreamworks Interactive, Ion Storm of Austin, Crystal Dynamics, including work on the Tomb Raider: Legend game. Grossman attended Harvard University and is currently a graduate student in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Website: www.sooniwillbeinvincible.com/; austingrossman.blogspot.com/
Book Reviews: Soon I Will Be Invincible
The inside cover and back cover are full of reviews from various media outlets but don't let the cover fool you just yet. If you read the reviews, you may be expecting an exciting and adventurous plot. There's also no question that Mr. Grossman positions the book as a witty outlook of the comic-book cliché. The book boasts tons of humor and certain entertainment as well. Do not judge a book by its cover, as they say. In this case, Invincible meets that criteria. Once you get into the novel and begin to understand the cliché and the parallel stories, it gets boring real fast. Let's see...evil genius escapes prison; the world's number one hero is missing and feared dead (sound familiar yet?); the rest of the super hero community are leaderless and directionless; a new super hero emerges into her own abilities; alas, it's all been a ploy from the beginning to capture the villain; the end. (hahahaha...evil laugh, I try.) Hey, if you like a parity, then get the book otherwise take a pass on this one.
AlienAlmanac.com 2008
