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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3683584" data-attributes="member: 3649">I finished Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. Probably the best superhero fiction I've read in a long, long time and the best novel-length book in the genre. It's not snarky, sarcastic or mean-spirited which pretty much sets it alone among most novel-length stuff I've read or attempted to read. It is a nice tale of a quasi-realistic superhero world, heroes with some of the warts that normal people have, that bring them down to earth just a little. But there is no real second-guessing of what they do, nor is there anything mean in what's written. Writing that treats superheroes as some sort of joke, I despise with a degree you can hardly imagine.It is an interesting examination of motives and inevitability. Doctor Impossible has come close to ruling the world 12 times now, and he's going to make an old school try for a 13th. He's the Smartest Man In The World, literally. He's so far on the outer edge of the bell curve that no-one but himself could ever really measure his brilliance. Yet he and the other scattered souls that share that rarified statistical area are all in jail.</blockquote>