Austin Grossman je uznávaný autor, který překlenuje svět literatury a videoher. Jeho literární díla, inspirovaná hlubokým zájmem o romantickou a viktoriánskou literaturu, zkoumají složité lidské motivace a často se ponoří do temných zákoutí psychologie postav. Grossmanův styl je charakteristický svou promyšlenou strukturou a pronikavým vhledem do povahy hrdinů a antihrdinů. Jeho debutový román vzbudil značný ohlas a upevnil jeho pozici jako jedinečného hlasu v současné literatuře.
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.
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: 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. Fungus army. Army of fish. Of rodents. Alien invasions. 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 to be the next generation of warfare. Filling the void left by a slain former member, Fatale joins a team struggling with a damaged past, trying 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 the notions of power, glory, responsibility, and (of course) good and evil.
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 . . .
