After the end of the story...

Angela Zwick is a secondary villain from a very old science fiction novel called 'The Reefs of Space' (part 1 of the Starchild Trillogy), being the person who got the hero of the story put in an explosive collar and condemned as a 'risk'. Angela was a beautiful blonde undercover police operative for the Plan of Man and The Machine, the computer that was in charge of humanity's fate. After ruining the Hero, she was given an assignment at Heaven, also known as the Body Banks, a place where useless people and political prisoners were sent to be harvested of their body parts and organs, one bit at a time. It was called Heaven because it was an open community situated on a pleasant Caribbean island, where inmates were allowed to roam at will and socialize with one another freely, living in nice communal bungalows of their choosing.

Apparently someone had escaped from Heaven with the help of corrupted surgeons, and it was Angela's task to find the people responsible and expose them. She did so, but it took a while, and by the time she succeeded, she had been rendered a limbless torso in a wheelchair. The Plan couldn't justify diverting resources to make Angela whole again, so she was declared surplus, and left in Heaven to allow the process to run it's course.

The Hero meets her there, as he has been demoted from a Risk to an Inmate, and sent to Heaven to be scavenged for parts. He spends a short part of the novel there, and then is rescued, and we never see Angela Zwick again. In the short time we get to know her, she makes it clear that she is an unrepentant tool of the Machine, and doesn't regret anything that she has done. She even tries to seduce the Hero before telling him outrageous and unforgivable lies about himself and his damaged memory.

The story was serialized in an old pulp Science Fiction magazine called 'Worlds of IF', and was illustrated by the famous artist Ed Emshwiller. When I was a boy, I found an issue of that magazine in a bookcase at a friend's house, flipped through it, and was utterly electrified to find an ink drawing of Angela Zwick in all her limbless, wheelchair-bound glory.

I've been wanting to be able to draw her myself ever since. I've made many attempts, and while I'm no Ed Emshwiller, I'm almost satisfied with the results.