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Starter Villain

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Added: 04-Sep-2024
Last Updated: 04-Oct-2024

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 19-Sep-2023
Audible Studios
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Date Issued:
19-Sep-2023
Format:
Audiobook
Cover Price:
$25.99
Length:
8 hrs 5 min (268 pages)
"Read":
Once
Reading(s):
1)   4 Oct 2024 - 4 Oct 2024
Internal ID:
43733
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Wil Wheaton  - Narration
From audible.com:

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think... particularly when you discover who's running the place.
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world... be a cat.
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©2023 John Scalzi ℗2023 Audible, Inc.
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19-Sep-2023
Audible Studios
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 John Scalzi
Birth: 10 May 1969 Fairfield, California, USA
Notes:
From the eBook version of The End of All Things:

JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His debut, Old Man’s War, won him science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony; Fuzzy Nation; his most recent novel, Lock In; and also Redshirts, which won 2013’s Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards as well. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. You can sign up for email updates here.

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