Austin Grossman Bücher

»Ich bin kein Verbrecher. Ich habe weder ein Auto gestohlen noch einer alten Dame die Tasche geklaut, sondern einen Quantenfusionsreaktor konstruiert, eine Plasmakanone, einen Killerroboter. Ich habe nur versucht, die Welt zu erobern. Ein Dutzend Mal. Und ich bin noch lange nicht fertig!« Wenn er nicht gerade versucht, die Weltherrschaft an sich zu reißen, verbringt der brillante Schurke Dr. Impossible einen nicht unerheblichen Teil seines Lebens im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis. Schuld daran ist eine Gruppe buntgekleideter Superhelden, die angeblich für den Schutz der Menschheit eintritt und Dr. Impossible damit gewaltig auf die Nerven geht. Doch nun hat er einen neuen Plan, wie er sie ausschalten kann …

Featuring firsthand accounts from the Postmortem column in "Game Developer" magazine, this book compiles insights from the creation of some of the most significant and successful video games in recent years. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the development process, challenges faced, and lessons learned, making it an essential read for game developers and enthusiasts alike.

The real Cold War was between the living and the dead... and America's worst president was its last line of defense in this amazingly bold counter- historical satire in which twentieth-century politics meets Lovecraft.

A high stakes, hi-tech Silicon Valley thriller from the author of SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE.

Dr Rick Tower is a mild-mannered English professor easing into middle-age at a medium-sized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable.But it wasn’t always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told ‘pretend you were never different’.Because, decades earlier after a very bad day at high school, he was committed to a secret government facility with three other kids, Cat, Jack and Stephanie, each special in their own way. Tested, tutored and trained, this extraordinary quartet were then told to save the world.It was the best thing that ever happened to them. Until it became the worst.Now, twenty years after the tragedy that forced him into academic non-entity, a mysterious disappearance means Tower must reunite with his former comrades. Each returns with their own agenda. And while great power might come with great responsibility, there’s little of that on display from any of them.Combining compelling storytelling and fierce imagination with a rich cast of characters, Fight Me is a page-turning and distinctive thriller, a unique tale of good and evil, and a memorable portrait of man trying to do the right thing at any cost. Against impossible odds . . .