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Red Jacket: A Novel with a Superhero

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By Michael Canfield
Published by Vauk House Press
$5.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: June 17, 2011
Words: 45,419 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458020512


Short description

New York. Tough place for a young, black superhero to fight crime, pay rent, and have a love life. Tough enough, that is, even before the city's mightiest champions enter a transdimensional rift, answering a call-to-arms against alien invaders. Now it's up to Red Jacket and a handful of other "rear guardians" to save the world's greatest metropolis. Or die trying.

Extended description

New York. Tough place for a struggling young African-American superhero like RJ (kinda strong, sorta hard to kill) to fight crime, make the rent, and hold on to his love life. Tough enough, that is, even before the city's mightiest superheroes enter a transdimensional rift, answering a call-to-arms against alien invaders. Now it's up to Red Jacket and a handful of other superhuman "rear guardians" to hold the world's greatest metropolis together.

This edition also includes a bonus three-chapter excerpt from Adam Brick's novel "Growing Up Zombie".

Michael Canfield writes about monsters, superheroes, couples, bank robbers, babies, astronauts, paranoids, hobbyists, and other people. He has published fantasy, science fiction, superhero fiction, horror and just-plain-odd stories in StrangeHorizons.com, futurismic.com, EscapePod.com, M–Brane SF, in dead-tree magazines including Black Gate, Talebones, Realms of Fantasy, and other places. His story “Super-Villains” was republished.. (Read more)

Tags

superhero, superhero fiction, superhuman, superhumans, superhero novels

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