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All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault

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In 1982, the supernatural creatures of the Dark emerged from hiding, and began selling power and immortality to the world's wealthy. In 2001, other humans began developing superpowers — "the Spark" — to restore the balance. Decades later, four college roommates become the latest wielders of the Spark
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observed that the four roommates are "typical" of university students: "kids devoting themselves to projects ranging from self-reinvention to self-destruction".
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praised it as "often hilarious" and "enjoyable", and noted its "themes of identity and self-discovery", stating that narrator Kim — who is
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lauded it as "terrific" with a "hyperkinetic pace", describing Kim as "vacillat (delightfully) between snarky and valiant".
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felt it had "snappy dialog, madcap action and real suspense" and "all the explosions you could ask for".
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All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault: supers and the undead battle for the world's soul
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when they are exposed to a laboratory accident, and must save the city of
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superhero fiction
James Alan Gardner
Tor Books
Waterloo
Prix Aurora Award
Publishers Weekly
Chinese Canadian
Kirkus Reviews
Cory Doctorow
James Nicoll
2018 Aurora Ballot
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault
Publishers Weekly
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
Kirkus Reviews
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault: supers and the undead battle for the world's soul
Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing
We Could Be Heroes
James Nicoll
Categories
Superhero novels
2017 Canadian novels
Novels by James Alan Gardner
Tor Books books

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