About Starter Villain
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.
Detail
Complete Title: Starter Villain
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Publication Time: September 19, 2023
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765389223
ISBN13: 9780765389220
About John Scalzi
John Scalzi
John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent.
(If you want to contact John, using the mail function here is a really bad way to do it. Go to his site and use the contact information you find there.)
Reviews Starter Villain
“I didn’t see the knife until the dude was just about to stab it into my uncle’s corpse.”
If at your estranged billionaire uncle’s funeral not only there are wreaths with inscriptions o…
Nataliya
Scalzi’s latest is a light-hearted story with a likeable fish-out-of-water protagonist and a lot of very smart cats. There’s also a dolphin labor dispute, some truly awful techbros (“consider your tes…
Rebecca Roanhorse
This is the second Scalzi novel in a row that feels very present day, and in a lot of ways is expanding on some of the themes present in smaller doses in The Kaiju Preservation Society. Big business…
Kevin Kelsey
Witty, quirky, and so darn amusing. The book had me at “hyper-intelligent talking spy cats.” I would very much like to slow-blink at this novel and give it a treat.Imagine your absentee trillionai…
Scottsdale Public Library
Available today, 9.19.23!STARTER VILLAIN is just plain fun!It featured an unlikely protagonist who just wanted to buy a bar, (even though he has no money), get out of the house his half siblings co-ow…
Char
This was so much fun…
Em Lost In Books
4 starsMy second Scalzi book so far, and it has been the best of times. The Kaiju Preservation Society was among my favourite reads from last year, which meant I had very high expectations for this. S…
urwa
Now THIS is what I call wholesome!Charlie has recently lost his dad. A dad who had had a family before marrying Charlie’s mother (who is also deceased). Charlie has three older half-siblings therefore…
Trish
Charlie is shocked to discover that his estranged uncle’s passing has involved him in a shadowy world of billionaires, evil-doers, and satellite exploding lasers.Suddenly he’s the owner of a top secre…