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  <name><![CDATA[Austin Grossman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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)&quot;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Concord, MA</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1969</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Austin Grossman]]></name>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]></title>
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