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WINNER OF THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory. Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She’s young for the job and hasn’t yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him? In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid’s world and make her question what she really stands for.

Detail

Complete Title: Bannerless (The Bannerless Saga, #1)

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 274

Publication Time: July 11, 2017

Publisher: Harper Voyager

ISBN: 0544947304

ISBN13: 9780544947306

About Carrie Vaughn

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Carrie Vaughn is the author more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories. She’s best known for her New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. In 2018, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery. She’s published over 20 novels and 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. She’s a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop.

An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she collects hobbies.

Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com

For writing advice and essays, check out her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carrievaughn

Reviews Bannerless

3.75 stars for this rather subdued, introspective SF post-apocalyptic novel, based around a murder mystery. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:In Bannerless (2017), Carrie Vaughn ― per…

User ImageTadiana ✩Night Owl☽

Vaughn has a easy-to-read style, and it didn’t take me long to finish Bannerless, despite persistent déjà vu.  I read the second book in ‘The Bannerless Saga,’ The Wild Ones, last year, and a short…

User Imagecarol.

What this is:A post-apocalyptic pastoral with mystery elements, with murder, light social corruption, with traces of old tech in a much-reduced future where simple ways are regulated with tight social…

User ImageBradley

3.5 starsBannerless is a post-apocalyptic murder mystery that works well as a post-apocalypse, somewhat less so as a murder mystery. Carrie Vaughn’s strengths as a writer – her powerful visuals, c…

User ImageGary

Bannerless is just my kind of book. Though relatively short, Carrie Vaughn packs a lot of world into these pages – though it helps if you’ve read the short stories from this universe, as I have.It’s n…

User ImageFiona

Leider überhaupt nicht das, was ich vom Klappentext her erwartet habe. Insgesamt auch eher schleppend. Deshalb gibt’s von mir auch nur 2,5 Sterne…

User ImageAnne Goldschrift

It could just be that I was really disappointed with the last few books I’ve read, but I absolutely loved this. Vaughn writes beautifully and a lot of what she says I found very relatable.When I rea…

User ImageSarah

Enid grew up after the epidemics and extreme weather conditions that caused the fall of modern civilization. To her, the idea of billions of people–even millions–is unimaginable. Like most everyone…

User ImageWealhtheow

What kind of post-apocalypse novel is this, where smart and good people do smart and good things, and lead a decent life because of it? A hugely refreshing addition to the genre, that’s what!Set a few…

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