Soon I Will Be Invincible (30 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Marty Asher, Zachary Wagman, and the team at Pantheon and Vintage.

I’m indebted to Julie Barer; Jami Bartlett, evil genius; Tina Bennett; Lev Grossman; Talissa Ford; Judith Grossman; Jennifer Jackson; Luke Janklow; Don Korycansky, who really did figure out how to move the Earth; Rowland White. Also thanks to Tom Farber, Bharati Mukherjee, and Jim Shepard for their wonderful fiction workshops. And to Marka Knight, for innumerable corrections and improvements—from nit-picking style points to basic premises of plot and character—and rescuing the entire project on at least two occasions.

And friends and family for support and encouragement throughout.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Austin Grossman is a video-game design consultant and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he specializes in Romantic and Victorian literature. He lives in Berkeley.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by Austin Grossman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grossman, Austin, [date]

Soon I will be invincible / Austin Grossman.

p. cm.

1. Heroes—Fiction. 2. Good and evil—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.R666S66 2007                           813'.6—dc22                           2006033296

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