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Authors: Austin Grossman
Tags: #Ghost, #Fiction / Ghost, #Fiction, #Fiction / Thrillers / Technological, #Suspense, #Technological, #Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
A
USTIN
G
ROSSMAN
is a video game design consultant who has worked on such games as
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds, System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Trespasser: Jurassic Park, Clive Barker’s Undying, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider Legend, Epic Mickey,
and
Dishonored.
He is also the author of
Soon I Will Be Invincible,
which was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in
Granta,
the
Wall Street Journal,
and the
New York Times.
He lives in Berkeley, California.
austingrossman.dreamhosters.com
Soon I Will Be Invincible
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PART II: THE FIRST AGE OF THE WORLD
PART III: THE SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD
PART IV: THE THIRD AGE OF THE WORLD
PART V: CLANDESTINE, OR THE SPY WHO LOVED YOU
A Selective Time Line of Video Game History
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Austin Grossman
Cover design by Kapo Ng
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