Fight Me

A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes

Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity Archives

Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am

Conn Iggulden, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lion

The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama

James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad

A treasure that manages to be sad, funny, and hilariously fun at all once. A thrilling adventure but also a searing, intimate look at what it would really cost to have such incredible power, and yet still be human

Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers

Fight Me embraces the fun of the genre, while treating its battle-weary characters with heart and empathy. A noir-tinged Big Chill for the superhero set

Bob Proehl, author of The Nobody People

Grossman's novel of wealth, power, fraught loves and friendships flexes epic muscles beneath its superhero costume

D.B. Weiss, co-creator of Game of Thrones

A sucker-punch of sheer delight, and I couldn’t be happier to be on the receiving end

Adam Christopher, New York Times bestselling Author of Seven Wonders

There is a vibrancy to the writing, and a beating heart, reminiscent of my favourite coming-of-age novels

Nick Cutter, author of The Deep

Combining a coming-of-age story with costume thrills … it has sly, smart things to say

Herald

A superhero story unlike any I’ve read before … this is definitely worth checking out

Track of Words

Blending the lurid, anything-goes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences … where every argument or falling-out can potentially happen on a cosmic scale . . . but a melancholy tone gives its quieter moments a surprising impact

SFX

Truly exceptional … Fight Me is a wonderful, action-packed superhero sci-fi adventure . . . Funny, fierce and engaging, it’s an amazing journey through a strange world of very real humans (who are also superhuman)

The Bookbeard’s Blog

A gripping, often funny tale with an unusual twist . . . I would dearly love to see this adapted to the graphic novel form, but I highly recommend this in the meantime . . . It’s terrific

SF Crowsnest

For all the kapows and wisecracks, it is a strangely sweet and sentimental novel

Spectator