Soon I Will Be Invincible Audiobook By Austin Grossman cover art

Soon I Will Be Invincible

A Novel

 Preview
Get this deal Try for $0.00
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just $0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 audiobook per month of your choice from our unparalleled catalog.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Soon I Will Be Invincible

By: Austin Grossman
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo, Paul Boehmer
Get this deal Try for $0.00

$14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime. Offers ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $22.25

Buy for $22.25

Get 3 months for $0.99 a month

Doctor Impossible, evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator, languishes in a federal detention facility. He's lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress.

Over the years, he's tried to take over the world in every way imaginable, using doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind control. He's traveled backwards in time to change history, forward in time to escape it. He's commanded robot armies, insect armies, and dinosaur armies. A fungus army. An army of fish. Of rodents. Aliens. All failures. But not this time. This time it's going to be different.

Fatale is a rookie superhero on her first day with the Champions, the world's most famous superteam. She's a patchwork woman of skin and chrome, a gleaming technological marvel built for the next generation of warfare. Filling the void left by a slain former member, we watch as Fatale joins a team struggling with a damaged past, having to come together in the face of unthinkable evil.

Soon I Will Be Invincible is a thrilling first novel, a fantastical adventure that gives new meaning to notions of power, glory, responsibility, and (of course) good and evil.

©2007 Austin Grossman (P)2007 HighBridge Company Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Funny Witty

Critic reviews

"The realm of comic book heroes and villains gets a dose of realism in this whimsical debut....Grossman dabbles in a host of themes - power, greed, fame, the pitfalls of ego...broadening the appeal of an already inviting scenario." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Austin Grossman has a superpower himself - it's called writing. This book is a new, winning, smart and funny way of interpreting our world. It's terrific." (Douglas Coupland)
Unique Perspective • Engaging Plot • Excellent Narration • Compelling Villain • Humorous Storytelling

Highly rated for:

All stars
Most relevant
I listened to this book on a recent road trip with my sister. Unlike most Audiobooks, this one was more fun to listen to with someone else than alone (although it would still be fun alone). We had a great time picking out phrases and scenes from the story to discuss, repeat, and joke about later.

The voices were very well done, true to the "comic book" feel of the story, without being overdone. My favourite character was the super-villain, and I found myself anticipating his "turn" throughout the story.

A fun listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book was fun. Grossman does a great job humanizing the superheroes and villains. It's great getting the characters inner thoughts as they're getting thrown through walls or trying to impress the others (usually to no avail). The narrators do a great job as well.

Fun!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What a great idea! It is action packed, clever and very funny at times. The characters are great, as are their relationships. The narrators do a great job. I think this may be one of the most fun things I have ever read. Bravo!

What fun!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed the story, but loved the performance. Really well done, and I lost sleep because I couldn't stop listening.

What a great performance!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As someone who aspires to be an evil genius one day I can say this book is fantastic resource material. If only I could get my mind control device working again...

Fantastic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story is extremely well narrated and enjoyable.
Dr impossible, Core-Fire, and the team will remind you of other classic comic characters that make this story easy to relate to and all the more enjoyable.

An amazing anti hero story that has you cheering all the characters and keeps you guessing until the end

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I couldn't get into it. It was just so lackluster. You can tell that, to a certain degree, Soon I will Be Invincible was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. After all, it is part of the super hero genre, which is probably one of the goofiest genres to consume. However, the book always seemed to take itself so freakin seriously. This would be fine if the book had a strong enough cast and interesting enough plot and enough originality to carry that tone. But, in my opinion, it didn't and thus was never goofy enough. By trying so hard for realism, the book fails at being very entertaining satire and ends up falling into the unhappy medium of just sort of being... well, a little boring.

The characters and storytelling methods also suffer from this sort of problem. The author seems to want the entire cast to be fully fleshed out characters, complete with interpersonal relationships and interesting backstory. This is a noble goal, of course. But then we are stuck listening to crap tons of long-winded backstory that is fleshed out too thin for me to feel like I really got to know any of the cast other than Impossible and Fatale. (and maybe Elphin and Damsel. Though, they could have still been fleshed out so much better. And Elphin in particular felt so out of place in a serious story so set on trying for realism, at least to me. That's another story though.) Nevertheless, the copious amounts of backstory rarely bothered to advance the plot, even when the backstory was for one of our POV characters. Large sections just felt like nothing was happening in present time because we had to spend so much time with this backtracking. It simply didn't work for me.

That's not to say it was terrible. It was just mildly interesting at best. So no regrets, but I'll never re-listen to it or purposely go out of my way to purchase another book by this author.

Just so.... ok

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I was very surprised at how fast the author "hooked" me and how loathe I was to put it down and get back to work. A novel of Super Heroes and Vilians with a human & humorous twist. The Super Heros are interesting but it's the life of the Super Vilians, as glimpsed through the mind of Dr. Impossible, that caught my imagination. What does it feel like to loose, again, in a super fight? What drives a genius to viliany and where does he get the money for his fancy lairs? What do villians do in ther spare time? I found myself laughing out loud in several places and sounding like an idiot trying to explain some of the funnier bits to my ever-patient wife.

Great fun and well narrated

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I grew up as a child reading comic books in the 60's and 70's as my favorite past time. A local store owner would tear off the front cover and sell us all the comic books we wanted for 5 cents. I would spend all day collecting beer bottles from trash cans and sell them for my comic book reading habit. Oh the wonderful memories of Spiderman, Batman, Superman, and my favorite Dr. Fate. Watching them fight evil and living mixed up and confusing lives just like mine. This novel brings back some wonderful memories as they describe so many different superheros and supervillians. I must confess I am a supervillian fan and enjoy Paul Boehmer's rendition of Doctor Impossible. His voice is fantastic and he is very dramatic and make you feel he is really his character. I'm actually going to search and see what other books he has narrated on Audible to hear more of him. I hope we get more novels from Austin Grossman. This is one of the best novels I have read. Collen Marlo was also excellent in her narration, but Paul brings down the house as they say. You will not be bored listening to this wonderful novel of Supervillians and Superheros.

Best Supervillan/Superhero Novel Ever

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Okay, so if you're familiar with super hero tropes and genre clichés... This is a book of them.
There's no twist. There's no interesting character development that questions the status quo of these stories.
These are barley 2 dimensional characters that you've seen before (but with the serial numbers filed off) doing things you've seen before, and saying lines you've read before.

It's fun but... not worth going out of your way for.

Exactly what you think it is.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews