Can’t Wait Wednesday: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to share upcoming book releases that we’re excited about! This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday, which was created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

John Scalzi’s books are always bite-sized delights and Starter Villain seems to keep with that trend. What could be more fun than a story about inheriting an uncle’s supervillain business? Especially if there are sentient, evil cats running it. This will be released September 19, 2023!

Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth.

Inheriting your mysterious uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.

Sure, there are the things you’d expect. The undersea volcano lairs. The minions. The plots to take over the world. The international networks of rivals who want you dead.

Much harder to get used to . . . are the the sentient, language-using, computer-savvy cats.

And the fact that in the overall organization, they’re management . . .