Austin Grossman is a game designer, game writer, and novelist. After graduating from Harvard in 1992, he failed to get a job in publishing and found a job at a small computer game company, Looking Glass Studios where he wrote and designed for games such as Ultima Underworld 2, System Shock, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Deus Ex, Disney’s Epic Mickey, and most recently, Dishonored. Along the way, Grossman also earned a Master’s in Performance Studies at NYU, and went on to work on a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Austin Grossman is 
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Sometimes post-modernist novels, like time-travel novels, give me a headache. It’s because I’m confused. Is the writer subverting expectations with the ending, or it is just that they can’t wrap up a story? And that really shallow character, is that a flaw, or a comment on society’s view of that “type?” Did the novelist really just lift points and themes wholesale from other works because it was easy, or this is an “in-depth analysis and critique of mainstream culture’s tropes and values?”
So,
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