Starter Villain by John Scalzi Summary
Overview of Starter Villain
When billionaire cats run companies and dolphins go on strike, you're in John Scalzi's "Starter Villain" - a New York Times bestseller that brilliantly skewers late-stage capitalism. Ryan Reynolds' production company snapped up rights to this award-winning satire that Jeff Kinney calls "the best funny read."
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From Substitute Teacher to Reluctant Supervillain
What if your estranged billionaire uncle died and left you a trillion-dollar villain empire complete with genetically engineered talking cats? This is precisely the bizarre reality Charlie faces in "Starter Villain." Recently divorced, laid off from journalism, and reduced to substitute teaching while living in his childhood home with only his cat Hera for company, Charlie's life is already at rock bottom when he learns of Uncle Jake's death on CNBC. The supposedly ordinary parking garage magnate had been estranged from Charlie's family since his mother's funeral. Their only contact? A wedding gift of berry spoons with an eerily accurate prediction about Charlie's doomed marriage. When Jake's attorney Mathilda Morrison arrives requesting Charlie stand in at the funeral, his world transforms. Within days, Charlie goes from defending his uncle's corpse from a knife-wielding stranger to watching his house explode, faking his own death, and discovering his cat Hera can type complex messages on a specialized keyboard. The substitute teacher has unwittingly inherited a global empire built on what his uncle euphemistically called "villainy."
The Typing Cat and the Villain's Toolkit
The Lombardy Convocation: Villains Among Villains
Dolphins, Whales, and the Ethics of Intelligence
The Art of the Double-Cross
Finding Family in Unexpected Places
The Inheritance That Matters
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