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dsrtao _Hench_, Natalie Z. Walschots
I don't know whether this book owes a conscious debt to Worm or if it's just part of the zeitgeist. In an Earth where there are supers of various flavors, the Temp Agency matches up unpowered and low-powered henchpeople with the villains who need them. Anna Tromedlov seeks employment in this fashion and discovers that while villains tend towards narcissism and specific acts of violence in the pursuit of their goals, the heroes constitute a [super?]natural disaster.
Well told story, complete in one not overly-thick volume.
I don't know whether this book owes a conscious debt to Worm or if it's just part of the zeitgeist. In an Earth where there are supers of various flavors, the Temp Agency matches up unpowered and low-powered henchpeople with the villains who need them. Anna Tromedlov seeks employment in this fashion and discovers that while villains tend towards narcissism and specific acts of violence in the pursuit of their goals, the heroes constitute a [super?]natural disaster.
Well told story, complete in one not overly-thick volume.
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Date: 2020-11-16 12:48 pm (UTC)Have read both: I think it's zeitgeist reflecting the "de-fund the police/Black lives matter" climate of the times (superhero fic has an unhealthy tendency to hero-worship police brutality in a vigilante mask). (NB: I may have a book of my own that makes a similar point -- among others -- in the works.)
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Date: 2020-11-16 02:08 pm (UTC)