(1969- ) US writer and Videogame designer whose debut sf novel is the Comics-based Parody Soon I Will Be Invincible (2007), told in alternating sections from the viewpoints of Mad Scientist supervillain Dr Impossible and a Cyborg superheroine. The lively narrative, set in an Alternate History of established Superhero teams, makes amusing play with related Clichés and touches on the darker side of Superpowers and super-obsessions, though without achieving or meaning to achieve the resonant depths of Watchmen. There are numerous echoes of Comics characters, narrative devices and – as in the title – melodramatic speech. [DRL]
see also: Islands.
Austin S Grossman
born Waltham, Massachusetts: 26 June 1969
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