In May, the io9 book club read Austin Grossman's intense videogame novel YOU. Now, Grossman is here today from 12-1 to answer your questions about this book, his previous novel (Soon I Will Be Invincible), videogame development, or related subjects.

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In May, we read Austin Grossman's YOU. Jump into comments to get started talking about it!

In May, we're reading Austin Grossman's surreal, action-packed gamer novel YOU. (Our review of it is here.) We'll meet June 4 to discuss it, and we hope Grossman will join us later that week for a discussion!

With his first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman brought dark, neurotic humor to the superhero genre. With YOU, a semi-realistic novel about a young videogame designer, he does something more profound. His characters' identities are forged during gameplay, so they can only come to terms with the past…

If you’ve ever thought that it’s long past time that someone wrote a novel about people who make video games, then rejoice. YOU—a book of fiction about the how, why and who of video game development by Austin Grossman—comes out today. You can read an excerpt from the book’s first chapter right here.

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Today Mulholland Books announced it bought the next two books from Austin Grossman, whose 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible won critical praise and devoted fans for its tale of a melancholy, neurotic supervillain. Grossman, an io9 contributor, talked to us on Friday about the six-figure book deal, what the books…

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