March to Other Worlds Day 2: The Andrea Vernon Series by Alexander C. Kane

March to Other Worlds Day 2: The Andrea Vernon Series by Alexander C. Kane

On Day 1 of this year’s March to Other Worlds, we looked at one of the great science fiction classics of all time. For Day 2 we’re going to take a look at an author who doesn’t take himself quite so seriously.

 

The Andrea Vernon books are a lighthearted parody of the superhero genre. They follow Andrea Vernon who has just become the administrative assistant to the head of the largest contractor of superheroes in the United States. As such, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to what you might consider the bureaucratic side of the superhero story. How do superheroes get recruited? How do you get groups of rugged individualists to do the jobs you need them to? (The phrase, “herding cats” comes to mind?) And what is a day in the life like for the administrative assistant to one of the most influential supers on the planet—a woman who (as a condition of her employment) Andrea is not allowed to ask questions.

 

If you say you don’t care about any of the above, then you haven’t read an Andrea Vernon novel yet. If you don’t think mind-numbing paperwork is funny, then once again I remind you that you haven’t read any books in this series. But it’s not all fun and games. Despite a very light tone that manages to highlight the absurd in every situation, there is some serious superheroing in these novels, If you like superheroes but are tired of authors who take the genre too seriously, you should definitely give Alexander C. Kane a try.

 

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