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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... read more

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  • “I've been tried for crimes on the Moon, in other centuries, other dimensions, and I'll be damned if I won't put my name on them.”
    Doctor Impossible
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  • Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone’s problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.
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  • When you can’t bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn’t you anymore; you’ve changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
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  • If you’re different you always know it, and you can’t fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you’re given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.
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  • There’s a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
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  • How had I forgotten this? When life gives you lemons you squeeze them, hard. Make invisible ink. Make an acid poison. Fling it in their eyes.
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  • It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.
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  • It doesn’t matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
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  • There has to be a little bit of crime in any theory, or it’s not truly good science. You have to break the rules to get anything real done. That’s just one of the many things they don’t teach you at Harvard.
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  • I was exhausted and broke, young and evil and superintelligent, somewhere in America.
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  • Life gave him lemons, and he brewed his own brand of dimension-traveling, world-conquering lemonade.
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First Sentence edit see section history

This morning on planet Earth, there are one thousand, six hundred, and eighty-six enhanced, gifted, or otherwise-superpowered persons.

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  1. Austin Grossman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: PANTHEON
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0375424865
Page Count: 288

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