Austin Grossman
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born
January 01, 1969
gender
male
place of birth
Concord, MA, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
member since
May 2007
about this author
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)"
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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.64 — 1,895 ratings — published 2007 11 editions |
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Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games by Austin Grossman (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2003 |
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"When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world."
— Austin Grossman
— Austin Grossman
"There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition."
— Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
— Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
"When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all."
— Austin Grossman
— Austin Grossman
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Soon I Will Be Invincible was an incredibly fun read. My daughter lent me her copy of the "Doctor Horrible's Sing-along Blog" DVD and I kept thinking, "This is so much like 'Soon I Will Be Invincible". I suspect Joss Whedon was very much influenced by your book.
