![]() ![]() “I realized there was a whole system devised to describe such forces, and what they cost,” Anna thinks. Laid up on a friend’s couch for months, she starts researching the total amount of collateral damage Supercollider has caused others, publishing her findings online. ![]() While henching for a middling villain called Electric Eel, Anna has a run-in with Supercollider and ends up with a shattered femur. The most powerful of these is Supercollider, a sentient battering ram of blond hair and wide shoulders. ![]() In Natalie Zina Walschots’s witty and inventive first novel, these workers are treated as expendable, often melted or bisected in crossfire, ground under the boots of superheroes in the name of law and order. The catch is that Anna is a villain’s henchman, or a “hench,” one of the countless factotums, gofers, grunts, peons, warm bodies that villains use to do their evil bidding. She doesn’t have enough money for groceries and struggles to “ward off scurvy.” Millennials, man. She does mostly data entry, lives on the margins, shows up for interviews in ill-fitting clothes. Anna Tromedlov is a freelancer employed through a temp agency. ![]()
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