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After the Crash Superhero #2
Rectifier - The Electric Man
Oliver Stewart just wanted to be left alone after his life fell apart. He never expected to be kidnapped by a secret lab and dumped in a mass grave, left for dead as a failed experiment.
Except it didn’t fail.
Now he can control electricity.
When the people he feels most responsible for, some only teenagers, are abducted by the same men in their van, the clock ticks down before they end up dead—or worse.
To save them he’ll have to confront his most shameful mistakes, find the lab to mount an impossible rescue, and pick sides in a vicious gang war with far-reaching implications.
This gritty, must-read adventure is the second book in the After the Crash superhero series but stands alone as a complete story.
Except it didn’t fail.
Now he can control electricity.
When the people he feels most responsible for, some only teenagers, are abducted by the same men in their van, the clock ticks down before they end up dead—or worse.
To save them he’ll have to confront his most shameful mistakes, find the lab to mount an impossible rescue, and pick sides in a vicious gang war with far-reaching implications.
This gritty, must-read adventure is the second book in the After the Crash superhero series but stands alone as a complete story.
212 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 20, 2018
About the author
Brian D. Howard
4 books8 followersWriting has been a passion of mine since childhood. A lot of it for me always started with "what if" questions. If I didn't end up going through it in a conversation I'd write a story to explore what could happen.
College brought a focus on psychology and philosophy, both about learning to understand people and why we do things. That's an important part of a lot of stories to me.
Since college most of what I've done has been office jobs, where I'd think up story or character ideas during breaks. in 1998-99 I lived in a motorhome and did a lot of writing, but I kept setting it aside.
Now that I'm in my 40's I've gotten tired of setting it aside, and I'm making a point of embracing the things I'm passionate about, writing being a major one.
College brought a focus on psychology and philosophy, both about learning to understand people and why we do things. That's an important part of a lot of stories to me.
Since college most of what I've done has been office jobs, where I'd think up story or character ideas during breaks. in 1998-99 I lived in a motorhome and did a lot of writing, but I kept setting it aside.
Now that I'm in my 40's I've gotten tired of setting it aside, and I'm making a point of embracing the things I'm passionate about, writing being a major one.
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May 6, 2019
A fun twist on the superhero trope
A fun twist on the superhero trope, something you really weren't expecting. Gritty as the city and a good adventure story, with a surprising bit of depth.
A fun twist on the superhero trope, something you really weren't expecting. Gritty as the city and a good adventure story, with a surprising bit of depth.
February 8, 2019
I don't read a ton of super-hero stuff. I really find the genre too optimistic; the idea that one great person can save us turns me off.
Rectifier is a little different. Here are people with not just minor flaws but major problems, suddenly handed incredible power. Rectifier is just a homeless guy whose made bad choices (including horrifying choices). He struggles with his very worth as a human being. When an alien implant gives him the power to manipulate electricity, he understands it at a technical level, but also resents it almost as Thomas Covenant resents his central role in Stephen R. Donaldson's universe. Actually, we can map this story onto that one without stretching much.
Rectifier doesn't so much save the world as show us how troubled it is, not only in fictional Bay City but today. He makes visible some of the invisible people. That he does so while dodging crime syndicates and battling other super-powered people doesn't detract from the close-up look at the humans beings we choose not to see every day.
Well done.
Rectifier is a little different. Here are people with not just minor flaws but major problems, suddenly handed incredible power. Rectifier is just a homeless guy whose made bad choices (including horrifying choices). He struggles with his very worth as a human being. When an alien implant gives him the power to manipulate electricity, he understands it at a technical level, but also resents it almost as Thomas Covenant resents his central role in Stephen R. Donaldson's universe. Actually, we can map this story onto that one without stretching much.
Rectifier doesn't so much save the world as show us how troubled it is, not only in fictional Bay City but today. He makes visible some of the invisible people. That he does so while dodging crime syndicates and battling other super-powered people doesn't detract from the close-up look at the humans beings we choose not to see every day.
Well done.
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